Harvard: The Johns Hopkins of the Northeast

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Gilman Hall @ Johns Hopkins University
Gilman Hall @ Johns Hopkins University

With Harvard unwilling to allow film crews on campus, the staff of the new Facebook movie "The Social Network" opted for Johns Hopkins University as the setting for the undergrad days of site creator and erstwhile Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.

But now, the Baltimore Sun reports, some on the Baltimore campus are up in arms over the decision. Students created a Facebook group encouraging others to wear Hopkins paraphernalia in hopes that some of it might make it onto movie screens. From the Sun,

That'll show them!

But another student quoted in the Baltimore Sun article took a more cynical outlook.

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