Students elect new SGA class council
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 2017–18 SGA Class Council election results, voter turnout and comments from two elected presidents.
- The News-Letter reported that the CSE announced the results, turnout rose from 974 to 988 votes, and 24.4 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.
- The paper reported that Kwame Alston, Ash Panakam and Anthony Boutros won their class-president elections, with Panakam defeating Jennifer Baron.
- The article says Panakam wrote that she wants to increase student engagement, promote class bonding and seek stronger mental-health resources.
- The reporter writes that Panakam viewed sophomore turnout as encouraging and hoped participation would keep growing.
- According to the article, Boutros said turnout was low and wrote that he planned to work with the CSE to attract more challengers to incumbents.
- The article lists Sarah Zappone, Mieraf Teka, Hayley Dott, Tatiana Sorenson and Joshua Bertalotto for the senior council; six named students for the junior council; and Meghna Kumar, Maya Foster, Dean Chien, Olivia Cigarroa, Edo Ighodaro and Alex Walinskas for the sophomore council.