SGA showcases student advocacy at first Activism Fair
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 reports on the SGA’s first Student Activism Fair for new students.
- The News-Letter reported that the Orientation Week fair featured more than 20 activist groups, and most received about 50 first-year sign-ups.
- The paper reported that Sophomore Class President Sam Schatmeyer said the fair introduced freshmen to activism beyond academics.
- The article adds that AJ Tsang said the fair included groups from opposing political positions, including Voice for Choice and Voice for Life.
- The reporter writes that SHIP and other environmental groups formed a sustainability coalition of seven or eight groups the previous spring.
- The article says Haley Province represented HUHR, which assembles naloxone kits and trains people to reverse opioid overdoses; she said holding the fair before the larger Student Involvement Fair helped smaller groups recruit.
- The paper reported that Kelvin Qian credited the fair and TurboVote with promoting participation, and wrote that the SGA could hold voter-registration drives with political clubs.