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.
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.”
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.
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.
This semester, for the first time, the Homewood Arts Programs is offering free, semester long, non-credit courses in both contemporary modern dance and ballet. Both classes utilize the Caplan Studio in the Mattin Center.
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.
On Monday, the Hopkins chapter of Global China Connection (GCC) hosted SAIS Professor David M. Lampton, an expert on U.S.-China relations, to discuss his recent book, Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.
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.
