Fewer than 600 students vote in mostly quiet elections
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 covers the Student Council elections and the incoming officers’ plans.
- The paper reported that fewer than 600 students voted, with less than half last year’s participation; the presidency was the only contested position, and Tim Miller won as a write-in candidate with 86 votes.
- The article says Jeremy Batoff attributed the low turnout to four of five candidates running unopposed and said the result reflected wider student apathy.
- The reporter writes that incoming president Scott Bierbryer planned to improve Student Council’s website, hold office hours and address event funding; the article adds that Student Council had endorsed HEAT’s proposed “Responsible Energy Policy.”
- According to the article, students raised concerns that four-fifths of the board belonged to one fraternity, while Dean Susan Boswell said she did not think group membership meant they shared one agenda; Andrew Gerba said his fraternity experience could help improve campus entertainment.
- The News-Letter reported that Miller wanted to represent overlooked students, Justine Mink wanted to make student concerns more visible to administrators, and Austin Nelson identified a $2,000 transportation-budget limit as a problem for student groups.