Voter turnout high for freshmen
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 News-Letter article reports on the 2005 freshman class elections, their voting system and the planned election committee.
- The News-Letter reported that results were announced at a Tuesday Student Council meeting, with 64.2 percent turnout and 744 online ballots cast—nearly twice last year’s rate.
- The paper reported that Prasanna Chandrasekar won president, Jess Buicko won vice president and three other students won committee Senate seats; the article adds that Jeremy Batoff and Kate Jacob would compete in a Thursday runoff for the remaining seat.
- The reporter writes that Chandrasekar hoped to make representatives more accessible, saying, "My entire philosophy is that if elected, you're working for the class and nothing else. The [freshman] class is really involved and trying to take charge."
- According to the article, the election used a new online system designed by SmartLogic Solutions, while company co-founder Yair Flicker said the designers wanted it to be as simple as possible for students.
- The article says the new Committee on Student Elections had no appointed chair yet and was being run by ad-hoc Student Council members; the paper reported that future elections were planned to be run entirely by that committee.