SGA elections bring old, new faces
By Elizabeth Arenz | April 4, 2013With the elections for SGA Executive Board beginning this Friday, candidates of the two tickets have been campaigning tirelessly over the past week.
With the elections for SGA Executive Board beginning this Friday, candidates of the two tickets have been campaigning tirelessly over the past week.
This week, Office of the Dean of Student Life and the Counseling Center introduced a new SafeLine program on campus to assist students affected by sexual assault or unsafe relationships. The SafeLine went live on Tuesday and is staffed by professionals in the Counseling Center.
Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) will join the Panhellenic Council next academic year as the fifth sorority on campus, four years after University officials revoked the sorority’s charter at Hopkins following a series of disciplinary infractions.
Former Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum will be the next featured speaker in the lineup for the Foreign Affair Symposium's due to Liz Cheney’s cancellation for personal reasons.
Hopkins admitted a record-low 15.31 percent of 19,166 regular decision applicants to the Class of 2017 last week.
The human trafficking awareness event series, “Not on My Block,” will be taking place at Hopkins in the upcoming weeks. The focus of the events will be to educate students on the realities of human trafficking. The series is being hosted by The Hopkins InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (HCF), Students Educating and Empowering for Diversity (SEED) and Amnesty International USA.
Hopkins’s Global Blue Strategies, an advertising class that has transformed into a full-service marketing agency, was selected as one of 20 universities to partake in the Honda Civic Marketing Challenge. The class has been working to create an advertising campaign for the 2013 Honda Civic Sedan entitled Recreate a Classic.
On Tuesday, March 26, the Global Water Program and Take Back the Tap sponsored a screening of Into the Gyre, an award-winning documentary about the effects of plastic pollution on the world’s marine ecosystems.
Over Spring Break, a group of 10 students from Hopkins and 11 students from Princeton University traveled to Argentina to engage in community outreach and cultural immersion.
Yesterday evening, the Hellenic Students Association (HSA) and the Johns Hopkins Hellenic Association hosted an event celebrating the bond between the Greek and African American communities at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.
Jacquelyn Campbell, School of Nursing professor, nationally acclaimed domestic violence researcher and advocate for abused women, spoke last night before a small crowd at Mason Hall on her work over the years and life experience as a woman in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field.
On Tuesday, Potbelly Sandwich Shop held the grand opening of its St. Paul Street location. Construction of the new site has been underway since the early weeks of winter.
In what has become one of the most exciting stories of this year’s NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament, Hopkins alumnus and Florida Gulf Coast University head coach Andy Enfield has moved into the national spotlight. Enfield was the first recruit of Bill Nelson, current head coach of the Hopkins basketball team, and still keeps in touch.
The Hopkins Organization for Programming (The HOP) and Relay for Life held a bake-off in the Glass Pavilion last Thursday, March 7 in order to benefit Relay for Life, the national charity that acts in support of the American Cancer Society. Senior Jack Morgan and sophomore Rebecca Rabinowitz spearheaded the event.
Celebrated during the month of March, Women’s History Month has a significant presence on campus this year, largely through events organized by the Johns Hopkins Women’s History Month Committee.
JStreet U, a national student-lead organization that promotes a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine through the leadership of the United States, hosted the final event of its four part symposium called “Is Peace Possible?” on Tuesday, March 12.
The International Studies department recently launched the Global Social Change and Development (GSCD) track for students interested in a double major in International Studies (IS) and Sociology. The research-based program prepares students for analytical careers regarding the challenges of globalization and international development.
Two weeks ago, the Jewish Studies and International Studies programs added a Jewish Studies focus area to the International Studies major.
Kappa Kappa Gamma will have social events this semester.