Following SGA class council elections, several positions remain vacant
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Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on the 2018–19 SGA class council election results, voter turnout and vacant seats.
- The paper reported that 928 students voted, a 7 percent decrease from the previous year, and that Zanir Habib, Dean Chien and Sam Schatmeyer won the senior, junior and sophomore class presidencies.
- The article says 10 seats remained vacant; it reported that SGA Executive Vice President AJ Tsang requested a recount, but the Committee on Student Elections denied the request.
- According to the reporter, Tsang argued that the voting system should have filled all six senate seats and wrote, “In light of these factors, and more, we are appealing to the SGA Judiciary to have the CSE conduct a recount of the Class Senator elections”.
- The News-Letter reported that next year’s councils would have one senior senator, four junior senators and three sophomore senators, with five, two and three seats left open, respectively.
- The article adds that Habib, Chien and Schatmeyer said they planned to focus on mental health resources, Baltimore community engagement, student-group funding and possible changes to council size.