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I've removed all copyrighted images used under fair use, since none had fair use rationales applicable to this page, and since in general we discourage fair use for lists. I've replaced as many as I could with free images, but I'm sure others on this list could be found to be illustrated (I'll look for a couple more myself). Please see the fair use criteria and fair use policy for more information. Thanks. Chick Bowen 01:08, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If more are wanted (or to replace Tori Amos, who didn't graduate) I've found Image:Murray Kempton.jpg or Image:Gertrude Stein 1935-01-04.jpg for the literature section, Image:Kweisi Mfume delivering speech at NOAA.jpg or Image:Georgelpradcliffe.jpg for the government section, and Image:Paul Nitze.jpeg for the faculty section, all free. More are out there. Chick Bowen 01:50, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Barth

hi, Barth's "End of the road" novel, takes part mostly in Johns Hopkins university, in which Jakob Horner teaches.

have a nice day,

itai, Tel Aviv.

199.203.116.98 11:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why in the world is Johns Hopkins claiming Madeleine Albright as an alumna, or even someone "associated with" the university? Did she stop by the cafeteria for a bagel? Did she ever complete even one course at JH? Did she enroll, stay for a few weeks and then hit the road? Hey, JH, please try to be a little more honest.

JTC

How about because she is an alumna. :http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=7 "she studied international relations at Johns Hopkins University"], "...with alumni such as...former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright", and thtas just oh 2 of the various places that state she attended. Oh an do take not, that one does not need to graduate form an instutuion to be considered an alumna of.

--Boothy443 | trácht ar 00:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In reply:

An alumna is "a person who has received a degree from a school."

Madeleine Albright has no degree from Johns Hopkins.

To place her on the JH list of prominent grads (such as Woodrow Wilson) is a joke.

In short, JH is simply trying to exploit her name and position. It makes JH (and its SAIS school) look silly.

JTC

Undergrads?

Once again, an outstanding list of alumni obscured by the mixing of graduate and undergraduate degree recipients. People want to understand the character of a college by its graduates. People who enroll for graduate degrees belong to a significantly different population -- they can clearly be included on a larger list, but it should be possible to see the undergraduate list by itself. A school as good as this ought to be transparent about the difference. If degrees were listed, I could create a filtered list in perhaps ten minutes. Unfortunately, this has not been done here.

Ronaldloui 04:19, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wally Orlinsky

i have added him as 'former' baltimore city council president. do we need 'disgraced', or perhaps 'and ex-con'?Toyokuni3 (talk) 19:46, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This list has become a dump

It needs some sorting, nobody is going to read it the way it is. Xasodfuih (talk) 17:57, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy Stewart

I did a brief check, and didn't see a shred of evidence that he was ever involved with JHU (in fact, he spent his undergrad years at rival Princeton, according to his wiki entry). Unless somebody can come up with evidence to the contrary I'll remove him in a few days. 75.82.34.247 (talk) 12:37, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. 75.82.34.247 (talk) 11:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gregory House

I added the television charater Gregory House to the list of alumni, but someone removed it. My question is "why?". The entry was clearly labelled "fictional character," it was truthful, it was certainly relevent to the cultural perception of Johns Hopkins, and the same information had been approved and available for years on other sections of the site. Is Wikipedia turning into a stuffy place where only select facts are approved by an editing elite? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.165.201.47 (talk) 23:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Take your paranoia somewhere where it's warranted. I'm just a random editor and not part of any "elite". It's my opinion that fictional characters shouldn't be added to lists like this. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 00:26, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are entitled to your opinion, but removing someone else's work because you think your opinion is better than theirs is the essence of elitism. As stated above, the entry was accurate, relevent, and noted elsewhere on the site. I would add that calling a stranger paranoid doesn't exactly make your argument stronger. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.165.201.47 (talk) 22:29, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Stand-alone_lists#Fiction. And I created a separate section in the article for fictionals. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 19:13, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. That is a reasonable approach. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.165.201.47 (talk) 16:32, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]