'Weed Smelling Everywhere': Student, Coach Confront Hopkins Board with Ongoing 'Safety Concerns' AlphaNews.org

'Weed smelling everywhere': Student, coach confront Hopkins board with ongoing 'safety concerns' AlphaNews.org

Share This StoryAt a school board meeting Tuesday night, some parents and students raised concerns about ongoing safety issues at Hopkins High School, describing a troubling culture of drug use and fights in school bathrooms and hallways. Daphne, a Hopkins senior and varsity athlete, didn’t hold back as she described the widespread presence of vaping and marijuana at school. Her comments came while she criticized potential cuts to the school’s F…

Hopkins faculty, students call for city to hold JHPD accountable to public

Students, faculty and organizers are calling on the Baltimore City Council to exercise its new authority over the Baltimore Police Department to hold the first ever hearing on the Johns Hopkins University Police Department.  Unlike BPD, the public currently has no mechanism to hold JHPD accountable or even to have their questions about the department answered in a public forum, organizers said at a late April press conference in front of City Ha…