Students to lose vote on Young Trustees - Board of Trustees to take over selection process
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 reports on the Board of Trustees’ plan to change how Young Trustee finalists are chosen.
- The News-Letter reported that the Board will end next year’s student election and give an appointed committee the power to choose five finalists.
- The paper reported that the committee will include board officials, two senior students, a faculty member and several deans, while applicants must still submit petitions signed by at least 100 junior or senior students.
- The article says the change will not affect the five current finalists, who were scheduled to appear before the Board’s executive board for final selection the following Monday.
- The reporter writes that finalist Arielle Goren supported some student role in choosing a representative, while finalist Chris Watson said the administration could best choose someone for the job.
- The article adds that the leading finalist received 106 votes, the second received just over 90, and the Board planned to evaluate the new process after using it next year; election official Michael Seibert said the Trustees’ Office had provided no requested funding.