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July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025 | Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins since 1896

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Week-long Valentine’s Day activities extended by winter storm

Valentine’s Day was a week-long affair on the Homewood Campus with conversation hearts, condom-grams and romantic Pandora stations ubiquitous. Beginning with a love-themed Sterling Brunch on Sunday and culminating in a second snow day on Friday, the Valentine’s Day activities were a welcome distraction from school for many students.




Board justifies President’s salary

President Ronald J. Daniels was listed as the 30th highest-paid private college president on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual list of executive compensation at private colleges. The list of 2011 executive compensations was published in December just before the Board of Trustees voted to extend Daniels’ contract until 2019.



Model UN Conference sees record turnout

Between Thursday and Sunday, the Johns Hopkins Model United Nations Conference (JHUMUNC) hosted a total of 1,680 high school students from all over the world at the Hilton Baltimore, making JHUMUNC XVII the largest conference in the history of the undergraduate organization.


Phi Psi video draws ire from University

On Feb. 8, the brothers of the Hopkins chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity posted a parody of The Wolf of Wall Street trailer on Vimeo.com, a video sharing website. Within hours, it had been picked up by other sites, such as TotalFratMove.com, where it was proclaimed to be “so damn good” and given “two thumbs way up.”


New Robotics Club receives warm welcome

Earlier this month, over 100 students gathered in Hackerman Hall for the first ever Hopkins Robotics Club meeting. Surprised but excited by the large turnout, the club’s executive board members have already had to change their course of action.


Students push awareness of stroke by wearing red

This past Friday was National Wear Red Day, a countrywide campaign to promote stroke awareness. HASA, the Hopkins Association for Stroke Awareness, encouraged students to participate in the event by passing out fliers and giveaways on the Breezeway.



Class explores new wave of global protests

The University is offering for the first time a new class called "Global Social Change and Development Research Practicum," which will allow undergraduate students to participate in an ongoing research project by the Department of Sociology.



Black History Month at Hopkins commences

With events co-sponsored by a variety of student organizations, Black History Month at Hopkins has gotten underway. The theme for this year’s Black History Month celebration, which was organized by the Hopkins Black History Month Committee, is “Beyond Blackness: Local to Global.”


Bon Appétit rolls in changes to dining

Bon Appétit Management Company, the dining provider for Hopkins, has made significant changes to some of the University’s major dining options, specifically the Fresh Food Café (FFC), Nolan’s on 33rd and Charles Street Market (Char Mar) for the new semester.


Film professor Jimmy Joe Roche finds beauty in art

The experience of watching Professor Jimmy Joe Roche’s short films is very odd and often visceral. In one film, entitled Peacing Out, a rainbow-colored Roche slides slowly towards the camera, fingers outstretched in the universal symbol for peace, for a duration of two and a half minutes. In another, Lean Cuts for Osama Bin, Roche portrays a man with a personal, violent message for Osama Bin Laden, set over a picture of a landfill.


Anthropology Dept. hosts NYU professor

A melting pot of undergraduates, graduate students, doctoral candidates, faculty and other interested parties filled a room in Macaulay Hall last Thursday afternoon to hear New York University (NYU) Professor Finbarr Barry Flood lecture on Islamic art and architecture.



New group aims to end extreme poverty

This past semester, the University community welcomed the addition of a new outreach club on campus, Hopkins Ending Extreme Poverty (HEEP). HEEP is the Hopkins chapter of the larger non-profit organization, NURU.


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