Throats: Fact or fiction?
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 phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article examines the idea of a “cutthroat” culture among Hopkins students.
- The News-Letter reported that “throat” means students willing to do anything to rank at the top of the class.
- The paper reported that New York magazine coined “the Hopkins effect” in 2003 and described Hopkins as producing an “ugly hybrid.”
- The article says upperclassmen share stories about fire alarms and stolen notes, but “the majority of them don't actually know anyone who has pulled the fire alarm or stolen someone's notes.”
- The reporter writes that the class of 2009 could reject this mentality and end the reported 3 a.m. fire alarms.