Letter to the Editor: In response to “Conservative views are unfairly silenced on campus"
| February 7, 2018
In response to “Conservative views are unfairly silenced on campus,” published on October 5:
The Democratic Party must change its message to succeed
| October 12, 2017
It has been almost a year since the 2016 election of Donald Trump, an election where Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to a reality star buffoon and one of the most unpopular major political candidates in modern American history.
Hip hop culture perpetuates dangerous drug use
| October 12, 2017
Recreational drug use has always, to some extent, controlled the narrative of hip hop music. Hip hop of the 1980s reflected the gravity of the ongoing crack epidemic. Music of the 1990s, fueled by artists like Snoop Dogg, adhered to a ubiquitous admiration for recreational marijuana, whereas 2000s hip hop felt, at points, like a barefaced campaign for codeine abuse, a phenomenon Lil Wayne arguably spearheaded. This is probably half the reason your parents never wanted you listening to it — perhaps rightfully so.
Muslims are unfairly connected to terrorism
| October 12, 2017
The shooting in Las Vegas is the most recent example of a growing string of large-scale attacks on American soil. After we’ve mourned this terrible tragedy, America must look critically into the circumstances that allowed this shooting to occur, both on a national and local level. When doing so, it is important to analyze the rhetoric used to describe the situation.
Letter to the Editor: Conservatives continue to misunderstand the meaning of free speech
| February 7, 2018
In response to “Conservative views are unfairly silenced on campus,” published on October 5:
Editorial: It’s time for more diverse voices in our literary syllabi
| February 7, 2018
Literature often reflects the values and thoughts we find most important in our society. Courses that teach literature should aim to integrate these issues into their syllabi.
Editorial: The Career Center’s new Academies show promise
| February 7, 2018
Over the past several years, the Career Center has gone through a comprehensive restructuring to better serve students as they prepare to enter the workforce.
Death joke culture is wrong, but it still persists
| October 5, 2017
If you were to ask a random person to outline our generation’s defining characteristics, you would probably hear a string of descriptors fitting something along the lines of “entitled,” “lazy,” “technologically driven,” perhaps “misunderstood” or “thoroughly cheated.”
Our student body has an inferiority complex
| October 5, 2017
For a school full of academically accomplished people, Hopkins is a school with an inferiority complex. This is a strange complex to claim and an even stranger one to prove. There are no statistics that can speak to the crippling anxieties and tendencies toward comparison that run through our campus.
Conservative views are being unfairly silenced on campus
| October 5, 2017
Police in riot gear. Black-garbed teenagers throwing Molotov cocktails. Yelled slurs, angry chanting, camera crews everywhere. This may sound like an occurrence from 50 years ago and half a world away, but it’s in Berkeley, California, and it’s happening now.
Editorial: Trapped in a cycle of mass shootings: When will enough be enough?
| February 7, 2018
“Monday morning, our campus awoke to the news of a tragedy unfolding.”
Linda Sarsour's discourse is divisive and troubling
and | September 29, 2017
We applaud Ms. Sarsour’s stated commitment to mutual engagement and respect, a commitment that she has restated in many different ways, and numerous times on her Twitter feed. But all too often, politicians and communal leaders fail to live up to the bold promise of their words. We believe Ms. Sarsour to be no exception.
Letter to the Editor: Professor reflects on the end of the Russian major
| February 7, 2018
In response to “Students criticize termination of Russian major,” published on September 14:
Editorial: We must all take responsibility for hazing on campus
| February 7, 2018
This past week was Hazing Prevention Week, an annual week hosted by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Hopkins Athletics and the Office of Student Leadership and Involvement. This week of activities included events such as a midnight breakfast at The LaB, the men’s soccer game, a movie screening as well as a keynote speaker.
MSE panelists’ anti-Semitic views are disturbing
and | September 28, 2017
As leaders of the Jewish Students Association of Johns Hopkins, we are troubled by the opening event of the Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium series this fall, a panel discussion featuring the organizers of the Women’s March. Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory’s struggle for equal rights for all is an admirable campaign and one that we support.
Baltimore is our home, not just a temporary residence
and | September 28, 2017
Like any city, Baltimore has a reputation outside of itself. Unlike the idealized perceptions of New York City and Los Angeles, Baltimore must contend with a number of misconceived assumptions. When Hopkins students subscribe to these assumptions, native Baltimoreans are “otherized” — maintaining instead of challenging the social gap between “them” and “us.”
A look into last week’s German election
| September 28, 2017
On Sunday, Sept. 24, the 2017 German federal elections took place. The significance of this process is obvious. Germany, as Europe’s largest economy and one of the EU’s lynchpins, is massively influential in European as well as global politics. How it handles inflows of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa, climate change, and bellicose nations such as Russia — among many other issues — over the next four years will set the standard the world over.
Editorial: When will the University lift its ban on new arts groups?
| February 7, 2018
The University has enacted a moratorium on students forming new arts and community service groups.
Editorial: PIIAC’s recommendation to divest is only the beginning
| February 7, 2018
The Public Interest Investment Advisory Committee (PIIAC) released an official recommendation last Friday that the University should fully divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies. The Committee — comprised of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff — not only recommended divestment but also outlined how the University can begin the process.
