List of 20 news stories.

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  Hopkins Connects With European Sister Schools

  Claire Billings ’25 Assistant News Editor
  This year, Hopkins introduced the spring break trips to Italy for the first time in over three years. In addition to visiting important historical landmarks, students also had the opportunity to connect with French and Italian students at Hopkins’ sister schools. 

   
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  Hopkins Springs into Action for Service Week

  Abigail Rakotomavo ’26 Assistant News Editor
  Hopkins’ second annual Spring Service Week, led by The Maroon Key Board, took place from April 3-6. 
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  DeLauro Combats Climbing College Costs

  Abby Rakotomavo ‘26 Campus Correspondent
  On March 30, 2022 U.S. Rep Rosa DeLauro introduced the Affordable Loans for Any Student Act to the Senate. This proposed piece of legislation is one of DeLauro’s efforts to make a college education more affordable to students throughout America.

   
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  Hopkins Responds to Earthquake Disaster

  Anya Mahajan ’25 Assistant News Editor
  The countries of Turkey and Syria remain in peril after Feb. 6, when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated the two areas, rallying the support of students at Hopkins.

• DeLauro Combats Climbing College Costs

  Abby Rakotomavo ‘26 Campus Correspondent
  On March 30, 2022 U.S. Rep Rosa DeLauro introduced the Affordable Loans for Any Student Act to the Senate. This proposed piece of legislation is one of DeLauro’s efforts to make a college education more affordable to students throughout America.
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  Elon Musk's Twitter Reign: Dictatorship or Democracy?

  Sophie Denny ’24 Assistant News Editor
  Elon Musk first began the process of purchasing Twitter in the spring of 2022 by offering to buy the platform for around $44 billion. Musk told NBC News  that “the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company…Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.” 

   
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  Glendinning Listens: Head of School Introduces Listening by Design Program

  Anya Mahajan ’25 Assistant News Editor
  On December 14, a focus group of Hopkins parents gathered over Zoom to converse with the new Head of School, Matt Glendinning, about the school’s future.
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  Alumni Fellow: Aaron Zelinsky '02

  Another of Hopkins' alums, Aaron Zelinsky '02 visited Hopkins Assembly on December 2.
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  Hopkins Continues Partnership with Davis Academy

  Evie Doolittle ’23 Lead News Editor
  After a three-year hiatus due to Covid, this year, students returned to tutoring at the Davis Academy. 

   
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  StuCo Organizes Hopkins’ First Walkathon

  Sam Cherry ’23 News Editor
  On November 9, the Student Council (StuCo) organized a walkathon as part of the ongoing Connecticut Food Bank Fundraiser (CFBF), the annual, joint project run by StuCo and Maroon Key. 

   
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  Students Assist Midterm Election Polls

  Sophie Denny ’24 News Editor
  This year, Hopkins students became involved in local midterm elections through one of Hopkins’ History electives, 21st Century Democracy.
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  Fear the Goat: Hopkins Mascot Joins Campus

  Anya Mahajan ’25 Assistant News Editor
  In addition to a new head of school, new faculty, and a new Class of 2028, Hopkins School welcomed a new, four-legged member to the community: a bronze goat, located outside of the lower entrance to the Athletic Center.
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  StuCo Spearheads Annual Fall Festivities

  Aanya Panyadahundi ’23 Co-Lead News Editor, Sam Cherry ’23 News Editor
  With the arrival of fall, Hopkins’s Student Council (StuCo) continues to bring to campus annual traditions with a spin, maintaining a warm and welcoming energy for students and faculty alike. 

   
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  Intense Heat Waves Surge Across the U.S.

  Anya Mahajan '25 Assistant News Editor, Sophie Deny '24 Assistant News Editor
  As the joys of no school, sunny skies, and long days arrived this summer, so did the grueling heat.
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  Letter to the Editor: Curriculum Survey Results Stress Need for Reform

  Rhea Ahuja ’23
  This past April, the Hopkins Curriculum Committee, a subcommittee of the Diversity Board dedicated to making the curriculum more representative of all of the different identities within the student body and ensuring that students are exposed to different religious and cultural ideas, collaborated with Next Generation Politics  to send a survey to the Hopkins student body. 
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  "If a Task Is Once Begun": Bynum Bids Hopkins Farewell

  Zach Williamson ’22, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Anand Choudhary ’22, Lead Arts Editor Emeritus
  On June 30, Dr. Kai Bynum will end his tenure as Hopkins’ 109th Head of School after six years in the role.
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  Dwayne Betts Performs Felon: An American Washi Tale

  Sophie Denny ’24 Assistant News Editor
  Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, a Yale Law graduate, the founder and director of Freedom Reads, and the most recent Hopkins Writer in Residence.
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  Interstellar Overdrive: Astronomers Discover Farthest Galaxy

  Anya Mahajan ’25 Assistant News Editor
  On April 7, astronomer Yuichi Harikane of the University of Tokyo reported the discovery of the farthest astronomical object recorded: a galaxy known as HD1, 13.5 billion light-years away.
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  Hopkins Fights Blood Shortage Epidemic

  Aanya Panyadahundi '23, Lead News Editor
  After just over two years trapped in the COVID-19 pandemic, America finds itself facing an epidemic: the nation’s blood bank is in crisis.

  Currently, blood donations are reaching an all time low, hospitals all over America feeling the effects. 
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  Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History

  Evie Doolittle '23
  In January 2022, at age 83, Justice Stephen Bryer announced his retirement from the Supreme Court. In response, President Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would be the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with experience as a public defender. She was then confirmed on April 7, 2022.