Student's seizure during exam prompts discussion of "cut-throat" culture
After a student had a seizure during Professor Lawrence Principe's Organic Chemistry exam, other classmates had their tests collected while student health response units arrived on the scene.
The Hopkins Emergency Response Unit (HERU) answered head TA Tony Evans's phone call for help for sophomore Shayan Khalafi after he seized with five minutes remaining in the test period. The TAs reportedly collected exams immediately after Khalafi began seizing, because five minutes had elapsed since they had called the time warning.
Some students of the class were disappointed at the way that the test situation was handled, although they admitted that they did understand the reasons for doing so.
"It would have been nice for the TAs to give five extra minutes, but I can understand their hesitation because some people didn't even react that much to the seizure," sophomore Julia Angley said.
Angley, who is also a member of HERU, reportedly handed in her test when she saw Khalafi seizing, and went to help. She said that because the exam was almost over anyways, she had already finished and had just been checking over her answers.
"I think at that level you have to be concerned about yourself, and if they knew there was nothing they could be doing, and people were helping him, and you were concerned about your grades, I understand why some kids wouldn't have helped. Personally though, that's not something that I could do," Angley said.
Following the Nov. 5 incident, a number of rumors that students in the class remained apathetic during Khalafi's seizure surfaced on JHU Confessions, Hopkins' gossip Web site.
"I could see it happening here - it's not entirely implausible. People at Hopkins get really tunnel-minded at times because the environment is so stressful," junior Aaron Jones said of the rumor.
Sophomore David Coren, a physics major, agreed with Jones, saying that the plausibility of the rumor was "not entirely out of the realm of possibility".
The Hopkins Emergency Response Unit (HERU) answered head TA Tony Evans's phone call for help for sophomore Shayan Khalafi after he seized with five minutes remaining in the test period. The TAs reportedly collected exams immediately after Khalafi began seizing, because five minutes had elapsed since they had called the time warning.
Some students of the class were disappointed at the way that the test situation was handled, although they admitted that they did understand the reasons for doing so.
"It would have been nice for the TAs to give five extra minutes, but I can understand their hesitation because some people didn't even react that much to the seizure," sophomore Julia Angley said.
Angley, who is also a member of HERU, reportedly handed in her test when she saw Khalafi seizing, and went to help. She said that because the exam was almost over anyways, she had already finished and had just been checking over her answers.
"I think at that level you have to be concerned about yourself, and if they knew there was nothing they could be doing, and people were helping him, and you were concerned about your grades, I understand why some kids wouldn't have helped. Personally though, that's not something that I could do," Angley said.
Following the Nov. 5 incident, a number of rumors that students in the class remained apathetic during Khalafi's seizure surfaced on JHU Confessions, Hopkins' gossip Web site.
"I could see it happening here - it's not entirely implausible. People at Hopkins get really tunnel-minded at times because the environment is so stressful," junior Aaron Jones said of the rumor.
Sophomore David Coren, a physics major, agreed with Jones, saying that the plausibility of the rumor was "not entirely out of the realm of possibility".
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