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April 29, 2025
April 29, 2025 | Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins since 1896

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Startup offers support for med school applicants

While medical schools accept around 70 percent of Hopkins applicants each year, many students find the application process challenging. To address this problem, two Hopkins alumni and one current student created White Coat Strategists (WCS), a company that helps students prepare for medical school admissions.





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Many Hopkins students joined city-wide protests to demand justice for the death of Freddie Gray in April, 2015.

Remembering the Baltimore uprising two years later

The arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a 25 year old black man and Baltimore native, sparked both peaceful and violent protests in April 2015. Two years later, Baltimore and the Hopkins community are still trying to make sense of Gray’s death and the surge of activism that followed.


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Profs. criticized for “anti-LGBT” paper

For months, activists have criticized the University for failing to condemn a paper published by two Hopkins affiliates in The New Atlantis last August. The paper suggests that biology does not play a role in determining sexuality and gender identity and argues that children who identify as a different gender will likely grow out of it.


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At VICE, Alvi has encouraged reporters to share their own stories.

VICE founder challenges traditional journalism

Founder of VICE Media Suroosh Alvi highlighted his organization’s goal to shake up traditional journalism at Tuesday night’s Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS).  He related his company’s beginnings and its transformation into a multi-media conglomerate.


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Hopkins House residents expressed dissatisfaction with the management’s response to the flood and fire.

Fire and flood at Hopkins House upsets tenants

A flood and subsequent fire displaced residents of Hopkins House, a private apartment building north of Homewood Campus, on Friday, April 14. Tenants, many of whom are Hopkins students, were unable to return to their apartments for up to nine days.


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Students held a four-hour sit-in pushing for fossil fuel divestment.

Refuel Our Future stages sit-in for fossil fuel divestment

Refuel Our Future, a student activist group calling for the University to divest from fossil fuels, staged a four-hour peaceful sit-in at Garland Hall last Friday, April 21. For the past six years, Refuel has been pressuring the University to stop investing parts of the endowment in fossil fuel companies.



Students elect new SGA class council

The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) announced the results of the 2017-2018 Student Government Association (SGA) Class Council elections on Wednesday. Voter turnout increased from 974 votes to 988 votes, a 0.1 percent increase from last year; 24.4 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots this year.



SGA fails to support campus smoking ban

The Student Government Association (SGA) debated implementing a campus-wide smoking ban at their weekly meeting on Tuesday, April 25 at Charles Commons. The Smoking Ban Resolution was initially introduced at last week’s meeting. The SGA did not pass the resolution, with 13 voting for and seven against.



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Astronaut Kate Rubins also worked as a microbiologist in space.

Rubins shares her experience in outer space

Astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins, the first person to ever sequence DNA in space, gave a talk at the Bloomberg Center on her experiences aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The talk, titled “Science in Extreme Environments,” took place on Monday.


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Hippocrates Med Review seeks to inform the public about medicine.

Students launch new medical publication

Hippocrates Med Review (HMR), a new student-run journal that seeks to make medical topics more accessible to the public, launched its online publication on Saturday, April 21.


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Glaude stressed the importance of fostering inclusive democracies.

Prof. links democracy with cultural diversity

Eddie Glaude Jr., professor of religion and chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, gave a talk on diversity and democracy at the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center on Thursday, April 20. 



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Graduate students gathered in Garland to demand more affordable and accessible University healthcare.

Graduate students protest healthcare at Hopkins

Nearly 50 graduate students marched on Garland Hall to demand University healthcare reform on Friday, April 14. The demonstration was organized by Teachers and Researchers United (TRU), a coalition of graduate students.


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