<p>From the JHU Web site today:</p>
<p><a href="Baltimore,%20April%201,%202010">quote</a> The Johns Hopkins University announced today that it is bowing to the inevitable and officially changing its name to "John Hopkins."</p>
<p>"We give up," university President Ronald J. Daniel said. "We're fighting a losing battle here. And we strongly suspect the extra 's' was a typo in the first place" ...
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<p>See The</a> Johns Hopkins University - We've changed our name to John Hopkins</p>
<p>So, if you're tired of your spell-check correcting you each time you've typed "Johns," you won't have that problem anymore.</p>
<p>Funny, though, that this announcement came on April 1. ;)</p>
<p>i hope thats not true. i always felt that the extra “s” made it special, any any time you visit for an info session or a tour, they always made such a big deal on the correct spelling.</p>
<p>APRIL FOOLS lol. it’s not real. ( i heard from a current jhu student.</p>
<p>Now see, this is a GOOD kind of April Fool’s post for CC. It’s not going to set someoen’s hopes up, only to be cruelly dashed. Good job.</p>
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<p>I agree. I hate to see April Fools’ jokes like “Brown to accept all Waitlisted Applicants” or “Harvard concedes sending out 900 rejection letters to admitted students.”</p>
<p>This one just makes us smile but shouldn’t affect anyone’s blood pressure (except perhaps those who are related to the original JohnS Hopkins) ;)</p>
<p>p.s. If you liked JHU’s April Fools prank, check out some of these at other colleges, etc.: [Student</a> Newspapers Play the Fools, and Readers Play Along - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Student-Newspapers-Play-the/64941/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en]Student”>http://chronicle.com/article/Student-Newspapers-Play-the/64941/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en)</p>
<p>Do you know that Johns Hopkins was named for its founder…Johns Hopkins? The “Johns” was, I believe, his grandmother’s maiden name…</p>