Last Saturday, Homewood Museum hosted the Harvest Ball, a fundraiser held to support a variety of programs at Hopkins. Members of the Carroll family, whose early American relatives lived in the former country house, were the primary sponsors of the Ball but an array of contributors gave donations and bought tables at the event.
Jeffrey Sharkey, the current director of the Peabody Institute, will be leaving Hopkins next year for Glasgow, Scotland, where he has been offered the position of Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), President Ronald J. Daniels announced on Wednesday.
In April 2013, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology Rina Agarwala published her second book titled Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India.
The University’s Amnesty International Club supports the name and mission of its larger international branch: fighting for human rights where they are deprived. Amnesty International was previously a small club on campus; however, Mary Egan, the group’s new president, hopes to increase the size and range of the club’s efforts monumentally. This semester, the club’s focus is on the issue of human trafficking.
During its Tuesday meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) focused on the addition of an ad hoc committee to the SGA roster, the Committee for Technological Advancement. The SGA also discussed the planning of a T-shirt burn to promote school spirit.
Last Thursday, the International Studies (IS) Program hosted a social event at Maxie’s Pizza Bar & Grille for current international studies majors as well as students considering the major.
JHU Politik, the club behind the weekly opinion-based Politik Press, plans to break new ground by launching an online video series in the near future. The producers hope that the effort will build on the Politik’s growth as a club in recent years, as well as offer an outlet for Hopkins students with a penchant for broadcast journalism to also express their opinions.
Manhood and gender stereotypes were the topics of discussion on Tuesday at “Boys To Men,” the first event of the Male Development Series hosted by the Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Iota Alpha fraternities and the Men Of Color At Hopkins Alliance (MOCHA).
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity has begun accepting applications for the Men of Principle Scholarship, an annual scholarship for freshmen that is offered by the University’s Alpha Chi chapter every fall.
Greek Week kicked off this past Wednesday with events hosted by Phi Delta Theta and Pi Beta Phi. Greek Week allows for fraternities and sororities to get involved with other greek organizations in the spirit of friendly competition. Events for the week will continue through Oct. 20.
Approximately 27,000 runners took to the streets of downtown Baltimore last Saturday, as the Baltimore Running Festival celebrated its 13th year in the city. Many Hopkins students participated in the festival, which featured a 5K, Half Marathon, Full Marathon, Team Relay and Kids Fun Run.
Free condoms are now available in the rest rooms of all floors of the Brody Learning Commons and those of the M and Q levels of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. These additional locations supplement existing free condom sources on campus — the Student Health and Wellness Center and students’ Resident Advisors — from which students have historically had to go to receive free condoms.
On Wednesday night, former CIA agents Jonna and Tony Mendez spoke to Hopkins students as the fourth installment of the MSE Symposium.
Last Tuesday, actor Kal Penn was scheduled to give a speech on the Homewood campus as the third installment of the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium’s (MSE) fall speaker series. However, upon learning that Penn would not be able to attend, MSE announced to the Hopkins community that Penn’s talk is to be postponed.
Hopkins students gathered in Charles Commons last Saturday to celebrate the official launch of the Hopkins LGBTQ Life Program.
Alumni from the classes of 2010 to 2013 returned to the Homewood campus this past weekend to attend the annual Young Alumni Weekend (YAW) organized by the Office of Alumni Relations. The event schedule offered opportunities for alumni to enjoy themselves while reconnecting with the Hopkins community.
Hopkins students gathered in the AMR I multipurpose room on Monday for an open forum on the new food service provider, Bon Appétit Management Company.
All nonessential functions of the federal government were shut down on Oct. 1, after Congress was unable to pass a resolution to appropriate funds to keep federal offices open and federal workers on the job.
Last Saturday, Hopkins students gathered on the Beach to participate in a 5k Color Run as part of HOPtoberfest. The run raised $2,516 for Baltimore’s local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital: The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Hopkins J Street U hosted Avner Gvaryahu, a former Israeli soldier and co-director of the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence (BTS) at the Smokler Center for Jewish Life last Friday.
