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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Baltimore Weather: HI 76 / LO 64 Chance Rain Showers
Dean talks with News-Letter about college aid, healthcare

Dean talks with News-Letter about college aid, healthcare

Inviting Howard Dean to speak at this year's Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium was, according to the series' organizers, something of a Hail Mary pass. The chairs of the symposium shot off a letter to Dean sometime in August, hoping it would make its way to the former Vermont governor, known as much for his maverick ascendancy to the height of political prominence as for his spectacular fall.

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Editorial

Dealing with the Dell

While we acknowledge that the relocation of Hopkins' humanities departments to the Dell House during Gilman's renovation is necessary, we find the University's treatment of Dell House residents upsetting. The departments' move to a centralized space is essential to maintaining the interdisciplinary interaction that defines the humanities at Hopkins. Full Story

Opinion

Dell House residents deserve fair treatment

Today I will receive a letter from Hopkins' real estate group, WP&M, regarding my upcoming eviction. This will be the first formal notification I or any Dell House resident will have received. However representatives from the dean's office said last week that residents were notified of the move's possibility in April prior to signing their leases. Full Story

Sports

Cross Country teams finish strong in Oregon

The Hopkins cross-country teams traveled thousands of miles to compete in the Lewis and Clark Open in Estacada, Ore. on Saturday and came away with a number of strong finishes amidst a field of schools from across the country. The Jays' performances included overall second and fourth place finishes by the women's and men's teams, respectively. Full Story

Science

Dust could form p***ts around distant star

Routine infrared surveys of the night sky have produced a fascinating finding: a star system about 130 light years from Earth might be ready to start forming Earth-like p***ts. Carey Lisse and colleagues at the Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory recently published a paper in Astrophysical Journal indicating that a ring of dust around the binary stars called HD113766 is at the optimal conditions to spawn terrestrial bodies. Full Story

Cartoons

How to Save the Environment

Thanks to the Flexcar program, earlier this week I had the opportunity to drive a hybrid car for the first time. It was really cool - sort of like driving Honda's version of the Millennium Falcon. In fact, I was so distracted by the gadgetry that I got myself into a minorly traumatizing minor collision with a minorly stationary object. Full Story

Your News-Letter

Courses Hopkins should consider

The Hopkins student body is a testament to the fact that having intelligence is not indicative of having any common sense. We are quite smart, yet some of us are perpetually lost and forgetful. Understanding how to integrate a four variable function does no good when a student locks himself out of his room on a regular basis. Full Story

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