We Need Bladder Ball
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article compares Yale’s school spirit with student life at Hopkins and calls for stronger campus community.
- The article says Yale students belong to residential colleges with their own housing, dining halls, mascots and traditions.
- The paper reported that Yale’s Bladder Ball involved a seven-foot ball that students tried to move into their college courtyard.
- The article adds that police tried to stop the game, but the crowd continued after the ball was hit back into the street.
- The reporter writes that the SGA tried to organise a candle-lighting ceremony on the lower Quad, but attendees approached it with cynicism and apathy.
- The article concludes that Hopkins students need to build more school pride and says, “We need a Bladder Ball.”