Proposal looks to reformat StuCo
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 “student government” and “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers a proposed constitution to restructure the Student Council and the referendum on it.
- The News-Letter reported that undergraduates would vote online from Sunday through Monday, with results due Tuesday at 6 p.m.; a debate was scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m.
- The paper reported that freshman Jered Ede submitted the proposal after collecting 200 signatures, allowing it to go to a vote.
- The article says the plan would create committees overseeing finance, legislation, appointments and performance, rename representatives as senators and give the Executive Council responsibility for daily operations and undergraduate programs.
- According to the reporter, Ede said the proposal would make student government more efficient because its executive and legislative parts were not separate.
- The article adds that President Charles Reyner opposed the proposal, saying it left out important matters and changed the council’s role; he also said members were surprised and lacked time to investigate it.
- The reporter writes that election officials said the vote had to happen before Thanksgiving and before Executive Board elections, while university official Jeffrey Groden Thomas said the process was following the proper procedures.