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April 7, 2025
RUI DO ROSARIO / DESIGN & LAYOUT EDITOR Check out the September Monthly Market at the Painted Mill to shop for seasonal goods, like furniture, clothing and arts!
RUI DO ROSARIO / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR Hopkins rose to sixth — the highest position yet — in the U.S. News & World Report best national university ranking.
COURTESY OF HOPKINSSPORTS.COM Our athletes had a busy and impressive weekend: Women’s soccer beat Muhlenberg College by a score of 4–0.
COURTESY OF SARA KAUFMAN Kaufman describes the experience of studying at a college in a city she never visited before and how she has grown to love Baltimore.
COURTESY OF TOM WANG Tom Wang, Andy Shi, Lily Ru and Harry Jiang competed in Hop Hacks 2024 on the philanthropy track.
COURTESY OF KITSCH CAFE Kitsch Cafe owner Jacqueline Mearman sat down with The News-Letter, opening up about her transition from a chef to a business owner and the ups and downs of running a local eatery.
COURTESY OF BERNADETTE KIM Student line up at the Beach to register to vote and fill forms for absentee ballots.
PEXELS / PUBLIC DOMAIN CC0 In a world where people are divided into “Uglies” and “Pretties,” all citizens are required to undergo plastic surgery at the age of 16.
mikemacmarketing / CC BY 2.0 A research team at University of Limerick’s Bernal Institute has published a new study in Nature that proved the feasibility of designing molecules that could revolutionize computing.
JUDY GALLAGHER / CC BY 2.0 Cigarette butts, in number, are the most common form of litter found in beach clean-ups.
COURTESY OF LANA SWINDLE Swindle reflects on her first summer after college and shares her realizations on the beauty of nature.
ALL-PRO REELS / CC BY-SA 2.0 Closer Edwin Diaz and the New York Mets will look to hold to the final National League Wild Card spot with one week left to play in the 2024 MLB season.
COURTESY OF KAITLIN TAN Tan ponders about time, discussing what factors might be changing how we perceive it.
BABYGIRLTOS / CC BY 3.0 Contributing writer Ruben Diaz gives his recap of the 2024 VMAs, which featured today’s most popular artists — including Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G and Megan Thee Stallion.
COURTESY OF BUSE KOLDAS Koldas writes a letter to her least favorite class, Physics, and describes her journey with the subject.
COURTESY OF AIMEE CHO This week’s picks include the the new novel, Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney, the album debut of Coyote by rapper-singer Tommy Richman, and the monumental Polyaspora Festival hosted by the Peabody Institute, which will feature performances by new composers at both the Johns Hopkins Mt. Vernon campus in Baltimore and the Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue.
SAMHI BOPPANA / CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF The data released by the University on the racial and ethnic makeup of the incoming class of first-year undergraduates in 2024 showed a drop in the percentage of Black, Hispanic and under-represented groups.
COURTESY OF ANNIE HUANG Sotto Sopra’s soprano elevated the evening's culinary experience with her soaring vocals.
