In Brief
JHU-Community Get-Together set for Saturday at Barnes &
Noble
The university hosts the third annual Johns Hopkins
University-Community Get-Together this
week in a new location: in front of Barnes & Noble
Johns Hopkins in Charles Village. The informal
event, scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, is
designed to help foster positive relations
and promote partnerships between Johns Hopkins and its neighbors
and will include light
refreshments, entertainment and a raffle.
JHU divisions and student groups that would like to reserve
a table at the event to promote
their work and/or initiate partnerships should e-mail kkambon@jhu.edu by the end of
business today, Sept. 10.
JHU's 2007 NCAA lacrosse champs honored at Oriole
Park
Lacrosse head coach Dave
Pietramala, who played baseball before switching to lacrosse in
high
school, got to try out his pitching arm on Friday night, when the
2007 NCAA champion Johns Hopkins
men's lacrosse team was honored at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in
a ceremony preceding the game
between the Red Sox and Orioles. As part of the festivities,
Pietramala was invited to throw out the
ceremonial first pitch, with all returning players and a majority
of the seniors from the 2007 team on
hand. This is the first time the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team has
been honored in this manner.
The Blue Jays relied heavily this year on a core of players
from Maryland, among them goalie
Jesse Schwartzman, midfielder Paul Rabil, attackmen Jake Byrne
and Kevin Huntley, defensemen
Michael Evans and Eric Zerrlaut, and midfielder Michael Kimmel.
In all, 20 of the 48 players who
earned a championship ring hail from Maryland.
JHU's 'Sage' collection on view during city's Mencken
weekend
As part of the annual Mencken Weekend beginning this year on
Saturday, Sept. 15, Cynthia
Requardt, the William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Special Collections
at the university's Sheridan
Libraries, will welcome visitors to the George Peabody Library
from noon to 2 p.m. that day to view the
newly acquired George H. Thompson Collection of H.L. Mencken.
The collection of nearly 6,000 books, articles, letters,
photographs and other items amassed
over 44 years by an Ohio accountant with a passion for the "Sage
of Baltimore" is believed to be the
largest privately held collection of items associated with writer
and journalist H.L. Mencken.
The George Peabody Library is located at 17 E. Mount Vernon
Place.
The Mencken Weekend is a collaboration of the Enoch Pratt
Free Library, Mencken Society,
Maryland Historical Society, Peabody Opera Theatre, Johns Hopkins
University Sheridan Libraries
and Society to Preserve H.L. Mencken's Legacy; for more
information, go to
www.mencken.org.
Ricky Skaggs concert to benefit Kimmel Cancer Center
program
On Sunday evening, Sept. 30, Paul Reed Smith Guitars and the
Harry J. Duffey Family Patient
and Family Services Program at the
Johns
Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center will host blue grass legend
and 12-time Grammy Award winner Ricky Skaggs with Kentucky
Thunder and guitar virtuoso Tommy
Emmanuel in a concert to benefit the Living With Cancer Resource
Program at the Kimmel Cancer
Center.
As part of the event, to be held at the Yale Gordon Center
for the Performing Arts in Owings
Mills, Md., Smith will host a live auction in which guests will
have the chance to bid on guitars
autographed by some of today's hottest artists, and on golf trips
across the country. The evening
begins at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour; the concert is scheduled
for 7 p.m. Tickets are $100 or six for
$500. For more information, go to www.prsguitars.com/tournament
or e-mail
charitygolf@prsguitars.com.
Advanced Academic Programs offers student counseling
service
The Krieger School
of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs last week
introduced
the Graduate Student Assistance Program, a free resource for all
current students of AAP.
In announcing the GSAP, Sarah Steinberg, associate dean of
AAP, described the program as a
professional, confidential service that can help students manage
everyday issues, from stress and
family conflicts to personal problems and work/school/life
balance.
Counselors, located in the Washington/Baltimore/Rockville
corridor, will meet with students to
evaluate their concerns and make recommendations. For more
information, go to
advanced.jhu.edu/students/gsap, e-mail
GSAP@jhu.edu or call
443-997-7000 or 866-764-2317 (toll free).
SAIS to host foreign policy forum featuring Congressman Ron
Paul
SAIS will hold a forum titled "Foreign Policy: A View From a
Presidential Candidate," at 11 a.m.
on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Hosted by the SAIS Center on Politics and
Foreign Relations, Financial Times and
the JHU Center for the Study of American Government, the forum
will feature Ron Paul, Republican
congressman from Texas and 2008 presidential candidate; Chrystia
Freeland, U.S. managing editor of
Financial Times; and Robert Guttman, CPFR director.
The session will be held in the Nitze Building's Kenney
Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should
RSVP to CPFR at cpfr@jhu.edu
or 202-587-3237.
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