Hopkins community celebrates 2024 total solar eclipse
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 government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers the Hopkins community’s response to the 2024 total solar eclipse and related campus activities.
- The News-Letter reported that hundreds gathered on the Beach on April 8, while Baltimore saw 89.7% coverage and Hopkins offered glasses, music, cookies, shirts and a solar telescope.
- The paper reported that Professor Kevin Lewis explained the Moon’s changing distance from Earth and said total eclipses will eventually no longer be visible.
- The article adds that students traveled to Vermont for totality; DJ Quezada described seeing the corona and a darkened sky, while Elliott Rosen said the sky darkened within minutes.
- The reporter writes that students calculated “Hophenge,” when the Sun aligned with the Gilman Hall spire, at 6:15 p.m.; Lewis said the alignment came from a class assignment.
- The article says SGA Vice President Jackson Morris joked that the eclipse was a university distraction from the cost of FFC and Nolan’s.