StuCo addresses exam reserve site
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 StuCo’s discussion of an exam-reserve website and other meeting business.
- The paper reported that StuCo discussed creating a linked website where members could collect exams from professors and students, addressing limits in the library’s current system.
- The article says StuCo and Ethics Board members agreed that the current system was flawed; Benjy Silverman said students now have “an unfair advantage” and that a new system could “even the playing field.”
- The reporter writes that the groups debated whether copying exams without professors’ permission would be unethical, including concerns about reused questions and unequal access.
- According to the article, StuCo will decide whether exams can be posted with professor consent; only a macroeconomics exam was published, though members hoped to create a full system by semester’s end.
- The paper reported that SAC had $48,376.04, the Student Council Contingency had $5,566 and the operating budget had $1,151.09.
- The article adds that the junior class invited students to its Nov. 22 Comedy Night and that StuCo elected freshman representative Rob Freundlich to the Committee on Leadership Appointments, where he said he wanted to help improve undergraduate life.