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Facebook Movie Becomes A Buzzkill For John Hopkins Students [Screenshots]

Amit Chowdhry | November 5, 2009 | 365 views | Comments
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Jesse Eisenberg is the actor that will be playing Mark Zuckerberg in a movie called The Social Network. The Social Network is a movie based on the founding of online social network Facebook. Facebook was founded by Zuckerberg in a dorm room when he was attending Harvard University. However the movie will not be filmed at Harvard. It will be filmed at The John Hopkins University.

“It feels degrading somehow,” stated John Hopkins student Diego Ardila while he watched movie scene workers remove the words “Latrobe Hall” from an engineering building and replace it with “Kirkland House.” The reason why Harvard would not allow The Social Network to be filmed there is because they have a policy that no commercial filming can be made on campus.

As the BaltimoreSun.com put it, John Hopkins felt like a “safety school” by the film because they could not get Harvard. Just like John Hopkins is considered a safety school for kids that also applied to Harvard. This is why many students that walked around the set made sure to wear John Hopkins shirts and hoodies hoping that it would end up being seen on the final cut of the movie.

Eisenberg recently starred in Zombieland with Woody Harrelson. The ironic part of Zombieland is that one of the lines stated by Eisenberg’s character is that one nice thing about everyone being zombies is that you no longer have to read Facebook status updates from friends.

ValleyWag posted the following screenshots of the movie set:
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John Hopkins Student Attacks Intruder With Samurai Sword Shortly After Getting Laptops and PlayStation Stolen

Amit Chowdhry | September 16, 2009 | 2,968 views | Comments
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Breaking and entering someone’s residence is no joke. By nature, humans are extremely protective of their homes and will go on the defensive if their privacy is violated. In this case John Hopkins student John Pontolillo ended up killing a burglar with a samurai sword. The upper body of a man was lacerated and he was announced dead a the scene. The burglar’s hand was also nearly severed.

About four undergraduates live in the house where the burglar broke in. In that house, two laptops were stolen this past Monday and so was a Sony PlayStation. After hearing a noise, the student went downstairs to investigate what the commotion was while holding a samurai sword. It turns out the side door of their garage was pried open and the suspect was found by the student. When John asked the suspect what he was doing and threatened to call the police, the suspect lunged at him.

The house resident killed the suspect with a sword and police are investigating the incident. Apparently the suspect had a long history of breaking and entering multiple households. The suspect had been arrested 29 times prior to this incident and recently was released from jail for auto theft.