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July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025 | Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins since 1896

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American activist Chelsea Manning will be one of the speakers this spring. 

Foreign Affairs Symposium announces lineup

The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) announced on Saturday that the theme of its spring 2018 lineup is “Ravel | Unravel.” The speakers include: activist and Maryland senatorial candidate Chelsea Manning; former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power; and Hopkins alumni and humanitarian strategists Greg Asbed and Laura Germino.


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Show Your Love sought to support the Hopkins LGBTQ community.

Show Your Love promotes LGBTQ visibility

This week, the Office of LGBTQ Life launched their Show Your Love campaign, in which they invited students to show their support for the LGBTQ community by wearing rainbow ribbons around campus. Students could pick up these ribbons from over 30 sites on campus. 



Local artist’s work addresses slavery and racism

In celebration of Black Heritage Month, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) hosted an exhibit by Paul Rucker, a Baltimore-based artist whom Baltimore Magazine named the city’s “Best Artist” of 2015. The exhibit ran from Feb. 8-9. 






SGA calls for more funding for PILOT

In their meeting on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA) addressed requests for funding from student groups and passed a resolution calling on Hopkins to increase funding for PILOT, a student-led tutoring program.



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Activists gathered outside City Hall on Feb. 6 to rally against Styrofoam.

Local students push for citywide Styrofoam ban

After a five month long process that started in September 2017, a bill proposing a ban on polystyrene foam (Styrofoam) products in the food service industry received a City Council hearing on Tuesday, February 6.




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Postcards at Brody offer insight into life for African Americans in the 1930s.

Students curate exhibit on black self-portraits

Brody Learning Commons is currently hosting a new visual exhibit titled American Selfie, which will be on display until April 6. The exhibit was created by senior Monika Borkovic and junior Lorna Henson as a part of their work for a Museums and Society class.


SGA discusses protest guidelines controversy

During their third meeting of the spring semester, the Student Government Association (SGA) heard presentations by representatives from the University’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and the Interfaith Center.


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