University reevaluates campus smoking policy
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 “sga”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on a review of smoking rules at the Homewood and Peabody campuses.
- The News-Letter reported that Kevin Shollenberger formed a committee to consider making the campuses smoke-free or limiting smoking to designated outdoor areas, with a report due this summer to two senior university officials.
- The paper reported that Hopkins Kicks Butts approached the SGA with a smoke-free proposal in 2013; according to the article, a later survey found most undergraduates supported a ban while most Homewood graduate students opposed it.
- The article says freshman Robert Lee opposed a smoke-free campus, while freshman Holly Tice said smokers should be allowed to smoke outside.
- The reporter writes that Towson and American can discipline violators, and that Towson faculty and staff may receive a $75 fine.
- According to the article, alumna Jackie Ferguson’s study found airborne nicotine in 87.5 percent of monitors placed in campus buildings, and she recommended making Homewood tobacco-free.
- The article adds that the committee would consider whether e-cigarettes should be covered if the University adopts a smoke-free policy.