Less is more: SGA needs to eliminate campaigning restrictions
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers the author’s account of undergraduate election-campaign rules and his race for freshman senator.
- The paper reported that the student-run Committee for Student Elections oversees undergraduate elections and sets campaign rules.
- The article says candidates could campaign only during the four days before polls opened, while posters and several forms of outreach were restricted.
- The reporter writes that housing staff removed his posters because they lacked the required stamps; he had spent nearly the $50 campaign limit on them.
- The article adds that he won the freshman-senator election and later planned to hand out candy rather than risk violating the dormstorming rule.