StuCo seeks power over good
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 compares Amendment A and Amendment B, two proposals to change student government.
- The News-Letter reported that Amendment A would separate social and policy duties, create 20 elected social-programming positions and reduce Student Council from 29 members to 19 senators.
- The article adds that Stephen Goutman, Eric Leslie and others hoped to reduce resume-seeking and excess “fluff,” but the plan would involve 40 students instead of 30.
- The paper reported that Amendment B would change the replacement process for class officers and make committees directly accountable to Student Council.
- The reporter writes that both amendments would increase Student Council’s power, but concludes that doing so would not benefit the wider student body.