JHU Student Council: a tangled web of intrigue and politics
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 phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article explains the structure and duties of Hopkins’s Student Council.
- The paper reported that a new constitution divided Student Council into an Executive Board and a Student Assembly.
- The article says the Student Assembly’s committees set bylaws and choose the leader of the MSE Symposium each year.
- The reporter writes that the Student Activities Commission distributes school funding to student groups.
- The article adds that a referendum dissolved the Board of Elections and created a Committee on Student Elections with oversight from several officials.
- The News-Letter reported that students could attend a weekly Tuesday meeting or run for a freshman position in late September.