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The Student Government Association (SGA) held elections last weekend for class council positions. Voting was open from Thursday at 9 p.m. until Sunday at 11:59 p.m. 1,543 students from the freshmen, sophomore and junior classes voted for their next year’s class president and six senators.
The eighth-ranked Hopkins women’s tennis team won a pair of Centennial Conference victories this past weekend to push them into the NCAA tournament for the sixth year in a row. The Lady Jays hosted the tournament, facing Haverford on Saturday and Swarthmore on Sunday to capture the title.
The Hopkins men’s tennis team is rolling on to the NCAA Tournament. On Sunday, the 16th-ranked team captured their sixth straight Centennial Conference crown and seventh in the last eight years by defeating 27th-ranked Swarthmore, 5-1. Freshman Erick Lim secured the championship for Hopkins with his win at sixth-singles: “It was an exciting experience. Coming in as a freshman and being able to clinch the conference title is definitely fun,” Lim added shortly after the win.
The Charles Street rivalry could not have played out more dramatically than it did this past Saturday. The Blue Jays achieved an emotional victory over the top-ranked Loyola Greyhounds after an exciting back-and-forth between the two lacrosse giants. The game was finally decided by a quick stick shot from sophomore Rob Guida, who scored the 10th and final goal with only 2.3 seconds remaining in overtime, granting Hopkins a much-needed 10-9 win .
In the team’s final week of the regular season, the Hopkins baseball team played a whopping five games in three days against Haverford, Muhlenberg, and Salisbury.
The Hopkins women’s lacrosse team scored an impressive win at home on a day dedicated to the nine seniors on the roster. Fittingly, it was the seniors who took control of the game to lead the Blue Jays to a 12-9 victory over 13th-ranked Ohio State in the last game of both teams’ regular season slates.
The Hopkins men’s lacrosse team got back on track this weekend as they edged #1 and previously undefeated Loyola University 10-9 in overtime. Sophomore Rob Guida was the driving force behind the Jays handing their Charles Street rivals. He not only netted the first goal of the game, but also the last, decisive tally en route to his first career hat trick, earning him The News-Letter’s Athlete of the Week.
The Hopkins men’s and women’s track & field teams competed this past weekend in both the Penn Relays and the Shippensburg Invitational events. On Friday, the team sent runners to Philadelphia, PA for the prestigious Penn Relays, before joining the rest of the team in Shipensburg, PA on Saturday for the Invitationl. Athletes on both the men’s and women’s teams set personal and school records throughout the road trip.
As Hopkins athletes--one current (Ryan) one prior (Nicole), The News-Letter sports writers, and all-around sports enthusiasts, we have chosen to dedicate our last column to two Top 10 Sports Moments lists: one list for the past four years--our college years--and one for the next four years--your college years.
Jason Trageser, the newest faculty addition to Hopkins’ prestigious Neuroscience Program, has a lot on his plate. As a prolific researcher, neuroscience lab co-instructor, and Hopkins’ one and only neuroeconomics professor, Trageser has a lot to say about Hopkins, neuroeconomics, and his passion for research.
A recent Hopkins study has found that when treating lower back and leg pain, standard steroid injections tend to outperform the emerging treatment using anti-inflammatory pain medicine injections.
In the May 2012 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Hopkins researchers led by Stephen Juraschek from the School of Medicine found another benefit of vitamin C that gives the little molecule an even better name.
In a culture dominated by graduate level research, undergraduate Tiras Lin has been making a name for himself at Hopkins. Lin, who is currently a junior, began doing research his freshman year with Rajat Mittal of Mechanical Engineering. “Essentially,” Lin said, “the motivation for our research is to start to understand what we can learn from the dynamics of insect flight.”
Recently, a study conducted by the Hopkins Children’s Center and the All Children’s Hospital in Florida found that parents misunderstand the risk factors involved with the onset of early-childhood obesity. The study showed that though parents appreciate the importance of good nutrition and dieting, they greatly underestimate the value of physical activity.