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 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.
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.
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.
Working with children and families in Baltimore’s special education system, the Homewood Educational Advocacy Resource (HEAR) group is supporting special-needs children in getting the proper care from their schools.
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.
Seven years ago, the Hopkins Neighborhood Fund was born under the administration of former President William R. Brody to compliment the efforts of the United Way of Central Maryland in improving communities surrounding the University’s campuses. Today, the fund continues to provide fiscal support to organizations and is now accepting its 2014 grant applications, which are due on Feb. 12.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium released its spring speakers line-up on Friday, which features Martin O’Malley, the governor of Maryland, and high-profile professor and public intellectual Cornel West, as well as others.
The University is making progress on ambitious plans to build a new student union or campus center in or around the Mattin Center and transform the intersection of the Homewood Campus and Charles Village, officials said in an interview with The News-Letter last week.
The Hopkins College Democrats and the Hopkins College Republicans are protesting a recent decision by the Student Government Association (SGA) to reclassify three political groups as Advocacy and Awareness organizations, a label that renders the clubs ineligible for annual funding grants.
Freshmen programmers Alec Tabatchnick, Matt Richard, Christian Reotutar and Bertha Hu came out on top this weekend winning the first place prize of $1,024 at the second ever student-led Hopkins hackathon, HopHacks.
Two weeks ago on Jan. 16, the University’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted to reappoint President Ronald J. Daniels to his post. Now that his contract with Hopkins has been extended, Daniels will hold his position until 2019.
An unidentified assailant stabbed junior Giovanni Urquilla in the basement of a residence belonging to Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity (PIKE) in the first hours of Jan. 19 and the final hours of a fraternity party. The aftermath of the party did not yield answers, and confusion as to the identity and motive of the aggravated assault persists.
According to a report issued this month by a nonprofit group focused on civil rights in higher education, Hopkins is not doing enough to safeguard freedom of speech on campus.
Former Sophomore Class President Alex Koren resigned from his post Monday night due in part to increased time commitments with Hyv, a data analysis system he cofounded. Acting in accord with the SGA’s Constitution, the remaining six class senators voted in former Senator Jahan Mirchandani as Koren’s successor.
Students interested in tropical biology and evolution traveled to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this past Intersession. The class of 22 students, which was open to all majors, took place on campus from Jan. 4-5 and in Ecuador from the 6th to the 17th. The class was led by instructors Dr. Greg Ball, Dr. Richard Shingles and Professor Farrah Madison.
President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Robert Lieberman were among the first of more than 200 American university and college leaders to denounce the American Studies Association’s (ASA) boycott of Israeli academic institutions late last year.
The seventeenth annual Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference (JHUMUNC) is set to start next week on Feb. 6. The 162 undergraduate staff members of the conference are gearing up to host the largest batch of high school students yet, with a total of 2,079 students registered to attend.
“Nerds need love too,” reads the top of the cover photo of JHU Hook Ups’ Facebook page. The new page hopes to spice up the Hopkins dating scene by connecting users with compatible mates via the popular social media website, Facebook.
At its first meeting of the new year on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA), focused on organizing a myriad of events for the student body with a unifying leitmotiv: getting students involved in their student government as much as possible during the upcoming spring semester.
