The arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a 25 year old black man and Baltimore native, sparked both peaceful and violent protests in April 2015. Two years later, Baltimore and the Hopkins community are still trying to make sense of Gray’s death and the surge of activism that followed.
For months, activists have criticized the University for failing to condemn a paper published by two Hopkins affiliates in The New Atlantis last August. The paper suggests that biology does not play a role in determining sexuality and gender identity and argues that children who identify as a different gender will likely grow out of it.
Founder of VICE Media Suroosh Alvi highlighted his organization’s goal to shake up traditional journalism at Tuesday night’s Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS). He related his company’s beginnings and its transformation into a multi-media conglomerate.
A flood and subsequent fire displaced residents of Hopkins House, a private apartment building north of Homewood Campus, on Friday, April 14. Tenants, many of whom are Hopkins students, were unable to return to their apartments for up to nine days.
Refuel Our Future, a student activist group calling for the University to divest from fossil fuels, staged a four-hour peaceful sit-in at Garland Hall last Friday, April 21. For the past six years, Refuel has been pressuring the University to stop investing parts of the endowment in fossil fuel companies.
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter hosted three Hopkins alumni to discuss their careers as journalists in a panel titled “Careers in Media” on Sunday, April 23 in Mason Hall.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) announced the results of the 2017-2018 Student Government Association (SGA) Class Council elections on Wednesday. Voter turnout increased from 974 votes to 988 votes, a 0.1 percent increase from last year; 24.4 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots this year.
Exiled Russian politician Ilya Ponomarev and his chief of staff Anastasia Popova discussed the current political climate in Russia on Thursday, April 20.
The Student Government Association (SGA) debated implementing a campus-wide smoking ban at their weekly meeting on Tuesday, April 25 at Charles Commons. The Smoking Ban Resolution was initially introduced at last week’s meeting. The SGA did not pass the resolution, with 13 voting for and seven against.
Over 30 students participated in 3 Day Startup (3DS), a program where students learned about entrepreneurship and pitched ideas for startups to investors and mentors.
Astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins, the first person to ever sequence DNA in space, gave a talk at the Bloomberg Center on her experiences aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The talk, titled “Science in Extreme Environments,” took place on Monday.
Hippocrates Med Review (HMR), a new student-run journal that seeks to make medical topics more accessible to the public, launched its online publication on Saturday, April 21.
Eddie Glaude Jr., professor of religion and chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, gave a talk on diversity and democracy at the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center on Thursday, April 20.
A panel of four experts discussed the ethical and financial consequences of divesting the University’s endowment from fossil fuel companies.
Nearly 50 graduate students marched on Garland Hall to demand University healthcare reform on Friday, April 14. The demonstration was organized by Teachers and Researchers United (TRU), a coalition of graduate students.
Dean of Student Life Terry Martinez recently released the University’s Interim Student Guidelines for the Protection of Public Expression, angering student groups that argue the guidelines encroach on free expression.
Over the past 25 years, the Center for Social Concern (CSC) has served as the University’s primary resource for students interested in community service in Baltimore.
In an interview with The News-Letter on Tuesday, University President Ronald J. Daniels discussed the current political climate, ongoing labor and divestment campaigns on campus and the relationship between the administration and the student body.
After a conflict between Hopkins Dining worker Latanya Genius and her temporary manager, students reached out to Hopkins Dining to express dissatisfaction with the manager’s behavior. The manager has since been removed from Nolan’s dining facility.
Carl Hart, the Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, presented on racial discrimination in drug policy on Tuesday evening in Shriver Hall. His talk, “Drug Policy is Race Policy,” was a part of the JHU Forums on Race in America, a series designed to promote conversations about race and racism at Hopkins.
