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In late February, Jeffrey S. Barber, a 1995 graduate of the School of Arts and Sciences, was elected chair of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees, a position he will assume in July. The Board of Trustees is the University’s chief governing body, responsible for advancing its mission and goals in the long term.
The transgender community has been significantly impacted by Donald Trump's executive orders, emphasizing the need to advocate for those facing injustices. Despite challenges, the LGBTQ+ community has shown resilience. Among the most vulnerable are disabled students, transgender individuals, and veterans, who have been particularly affected without consideration for their mental and physical health.
Liberal arts colleges are some of wealthy Americans favorite institutions. Parents send their children to schools the size of most high schools with millions of dollars allocated to each individual student, with few graduate programs (rarely doctoral) and research initiatives absorbing tuition money. Amongst leftists, liberal arts colleges intellectual curriculums and left-wing political affiliations are the epitome of intellectual learning over pre-professional.
Baltimore is a city filled with rich culture, history and innovation. The city was the birthplace of “The Star-Spangled Banner”; the American railroad system; and Hopkins, the U.S.’s first research university, which has been a hub for research and invention for more than a century.
Lady Liberty’s torch is dimming. Republicans insist that she is fatigued and her fire has been quenched by the caravan of migrants exploiting her generosity. They may seek to close the United States to asylum seekers but conservative politicians are opening up our borders to a century-old European ideology ready to invade our democratic union: fascism.
In the past decade, private equity investors have spent over $1 trillion in acquiring health care entities — ranging from hospitals and nursing homes to private physician practices. While it may be spun that these firms are infusing much-needed capital into struggling hospitals, the reality is that these investments are detrimental to patient care and are emblematic of the ills of the American health care system, not the cure.
On Feb. 10, President Ronald J. Daniels announced that Hopkins joined several universities and higher education groups in a federal lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in response to the NIH limiting indirect research costs to 15% of grant funding. Indirect costs are a percentage of grant money that is paid by the NIH to institutions conducting research (i.e. Hopkins) for facilities, equipment, administrative support and IT infrastructure costs. As of 2023, Hopkins had negotiated an indirect cost rate of over 60%, and such a dramatic reduction would undoubtedly stall the clinical trials and research at the University.
Nowadays, there seem to be more epidemics than ever before: COVID-19, obesity, drug addiction and bird flu, among others. But another epidemic haunts the ivory towers and brick-lined paths of elite universities across the U.S.: the “sellout” epidemic.
In 2023, Christopher McNaughton suffered from a debilitating case of ulcerative colitis, which caused him to develop severe arthritis, diarrhea, numbing, and dangerous blood clots. Luckily, an amalgamation of drugs crafted by a Mayo Clinic specialist brought his illness under control. However, McNaughton’s case cost nearly $2 million dollars a year to maintain, which flagged him as a “high dollar account” under UnitedHealthcare’s policies. The company reviewed McNaughton’s situation and deemed that his case was not necessary, refusing to pay for the treatment.
On Jan. 22, the Trump administration temporarily imposed restrictions on National Institute of Health (NIH) activities, including cancelling grant review panels, instituting a hiring freeze, pausing communications and banning travel. The Trump administration also attempted to put a pause on all federal grants and loans, excluding Social Security and Medicare, but two federal judges temporarily blocked the directive.
As the nation’s first research institution, Johns Hopkins has topped the National Science Foundation’s list of academic institutions for Research & Development spending for 45 years. This year, Hopkins spent $3.8 billion across the university. More than half of this was sunk into one division — the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
“I didn’t know she was that smart.”
Donald Trump is going to be president again. In our endorsement a couple weeks ago, we endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, but now we must all come to terms with the looming Trump administration.
What is the ultimate purpose of a university? Is it to develop individuals who are masters of a specific craft, to allow students to cultivate a broader understanding of the world by engaging in many disciplines or perhaps to achieve a balance of both?
I, like many, was outraged and disappointed by the results of this election. But I don’t find it politically expedient to blame voters for what we perceive to be bad choices. Rather, we must examine the failures of the campaign and learn the right lessons. Anyone saying Kamala Harris ran a perfect campaign is wrong—a perfect campaign would have won. There are a few factors which were not key to this election, and a few which were. Let’s break them down.
It’s a random Wednesday in the middle of the semester, and you’ve just woken up to an alarm you set almost a month ago. You furiously type in your login information and pull up time.gov on a separate window. Some of your friends are even using two or three different devices just in case one decides to self-destruct at the eleventh hour or leaving their house to find a “place with better wifi.” You have a Plan A, Plan B, Plan C and a (hopefully untouched) Plan D. It is a free-for-all; it is a bloodbath. To Hopkins students, it probably sounds like I’m describing that fateful day known as class registration. But I am, in fact, describing something else entirely: the arena of concert ticket online sales.
Following Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, my Instagram timeline was nothing but celebrations or protests of his historic triumph. As I clicked through the stories and doomscrolled through my explore page, the content in front of me ranged from reposts praising Trump to statements voicing concerns with his presidency.
Have we been here before? In the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, even the shock, fear, anger, and fatigue has taken on a horror-like, deja vu quality. It’s the same queasiness we felt after the 2016 presidential election, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and reversed affirmative action in 2023, and every time we open our social media to see images of the latest harrowing example of colonial violence.
Sharp angles. Bare sides. Flat features. Only lines.
Last Saturday, the best pollster in the country, Ann Selzer, showed Kamala Harris ahead by the three points in deep-red Iowa, a state Donald Trump beat Joe Biden by eight points. Selzer is one of the two best pollsters (along with The New York Times/Siena College) according to polling guru Nate Silver.