Hopkins students celebrated the first annual HOPtoberfest last week, which is comprised of a series of events and festivities extending from Tuesday, Oct. 1 through Sunday, Oct. 6.
During a meeting on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed a range of topics, such as improving the Blue Jay Shuttle; providing funding for an a cappella workshop; filling open positions on the SGA Judiciary Board and bringing a mental health advocacy group to campus.
To most Hopkins students, Campus Security’s Incident Report emails are the norm. Several times a week, students receive brief statements regarding thefts or robberies on and around campus. The emails tend to have a similar theme: theft of unattended laptops and phones on the lower levels of the library or off campus on St. Paul.
Last Thursday, the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) at Hopkins led an open forum to discuss the ethics of classified research in response to the recent NSA-related blog controversy involving Matthew Green, an assistant research professor in the computer science department.
Jason Corning, president of the Baltimore Deaf-Blind Community, spoke this past Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall. The event was sponsored by the Hopkins Student Disability Initiative.
Five Hopkins graduates spoke about their experiences in the field of marketing at the fifth annual Marketing Alumni Panel hosted by the Hopkins chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) on Monday.
On Monday, Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels announced the appointment of T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger as the next Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering. Schlesinger was approved by the Board of Trustees and will assume leadership of the Whiting School on Jan. 1.
On Friday, up to $500,000 will be invested in new startups at a Johns Hopkins Innovation Factory summit. Selected entrepreneurs will present their ideas to a panel of judges who can award up to $100,000 to each group.
The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate unanimously approved the Hopkins Wading Team’s application for official recognition on Tuesday.
Former presidential speechwriter Jon Favreau spoke to Hopkins students on Wednesday night at Shriver Hall in the second installment of the MSE Symposium.
On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the federal government was unable to reach a consensus on the yearly budget, causing the first government shutdown in 17 years. Congress could not agree on how to fund federal projects, and without passing bills that outline next year’s spending, the federal government will experience a shutdown until an agreement is reached.
Many students at Hopkins take time out of their schedules to participate in religious life. However, while Hopkins has many groups emphasizing different religions and aspects of faith, students hold diverging opinions on the openness of the campus as a whole.
The inaugural Hopkins Film Conference, held last Saturday, highlighted the impact of new audio-visual technologies on the creation and perception of film.
Malone Hall, a new building meant to house operations of the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE), is quickly moving towards completion.
On Sept. 19, the University’s Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities, Alice McDermott, was nominated for the National Book Award longlist for fiction. This is the first time the Foundation has presented a longlist, and McDermott is one of 10 notable contenders for the award.
Last Monday, the University installed Reclining Figure, a 4200 pound outdoor sculpture between Remsen Hall and Dunning Hall on the Homewood Campus.
Last Friday, students gathered at Baltimore’s Pier Six Pavilion to see pop singer Ke$ha perform live. The doors for the event opened at 6:30 p.m. and the show began at 8:00 p.m.
Students for Environmental Action (SEA) hosted A Day Without Oil, an environmental awareness event, on Sept. 26.
This past Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA) welcomed the Freshmen Class President Jonathan Loewenberg, and Senators Opeoluwa Olukorede, Adelaide Morphett, Jonathan (JB) Brown, Gaurav Verma, Matthew Brown and Nick McCormack in the fifth student government meeting of the year.
A fire in Charles Commons forced a building-wide evacuation of the residence hall shortly after 7 p.m. last night. A University spokesperson said that to her knowledge no one was hurt in the fire, which appeared to have begun in suite 927 on the ninth floor facing 33rd Street near the corner of 33rd and Charles Street.
