Hopkins students celebrated the second annual Hoptoberfest, a series of events and activities on campus that spanned from Oct. 7-12. Hoptoberfest is sponsored by the Hopkins Parents Fund and directed by the Office of Student Life.
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I.D.E.A.L. Voting Club, a new student forum founded by sophomore Liam Haviv for nonpartisan political discussion, is seeking to change the way students form and share their political opinions.
The Bamboo Café, which offers a variety of Asian foods, opened in the Mattin Center on Oct. 1, taking the place of the Silk Road Café.
California’s newly passed “Affirmative Consent” Sexual Assault Bill, which requires “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity,” has sparked debate on how sexual violence investigations on college campuses should be conducted.
The third annual Project Homeless Connect (PHC) event drew more than 175 University affiliates to help Baltimore’s homeless population access legal, health and educational services at the Baltimore Convention Center on Oct. 2.
On Saturday, the South Asian Students at Hopkins (SASH) hosted their first major event of the fall semester, the SASH Class Bash. The event consisted of small competitions to promote competition between the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes.
The New Political Society continued its lecture series with Robert Johnson on Tuesday. The club, which was formed in the spring of 2014, is designed to expose students to new thoughts.
Every week in the Mattin Center, students meet in the Caplan Dance Studio for ballet and modern dance classes. These courses include open sessions, as well as advanced classes for company members. They each run for one semester and are non-credit.
The Organización Latino Estudiantil (OLÉ) held a kickoff event in Charles Commons Friday evening to celebrate the beginning of Latino Heritage Month.
The development of a Hopkins-sponsored early child care center near the Homewood campus moved forward with the closure of a University employee parking lot on Oct. 4, according to a notice by Transportation Services.
This Saturday, the historic Baltimore neighborhood of Fells Point held its 48th annual October Fun Festival. The festival, which took place on Thames Street, is steeped in tradition.
Hopkins Students for Justice in Palestine (HSJP) hosted a performance of My Name is Rachel Corrie, a one-woman, one-act play based on the true story of an American who was killed in Palestine. The show took place in the Arellano Theater on Friday.
The Career Center has partnered with Convergence, LLC., a financial information company, to offer services for students interested in all aspects of the financial industry.
The Student Government Association (SGA) welcomed its freshman class president and senators at the organization’s meeting Tuesday night.
The Earth & Planetary Sciences Department hosted climatologist and aerosol specialist Lorraine Remer of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Thursday. The Bromery lecture, held in Olin Hall, was titled, “Aerosols and Climate Forcing: New Thoughts, Future Direction,” and focused on how aerosols contribute to the global heating and cooling cycle.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) announced Friday that Anna Du will serve as the freshman class president for the Class of 2018. Alex Darwiche, Heidi Woll, Elise Rodrigues, Kwame Alston, Alberto Pepe Muniz and Sarah Zappone were elected to be class senators.
Both Ends Burning (BEB), a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of orphaned children, presented the award-winning documentary Stuck in Krieger Hall on Sept. 24 as part of its national campus tour.
Yannis Galanakis, a member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, gave a lecture entitled “The Diplomat, The Dealer, and The Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in Nineteenth-Century Greece.” The talk took place last Friday to an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as well as patrons of the Baltimore Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).
