Planning for success - Editorial
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 editorial reports on planning for Halloween transportation and the Diwali Dhamaaka celebration.
- The article says the Hindu Students Council estimated that more than 800 people attended Diwali and moved food to the Great Hall to make more room in the Glass Pavilion.
- The paper reported that too few buses served Halloween crowds, leaving students behind and forcing some to pay more than $10 for taxis despite being promised free rides.
- The reporter writes that return buses from Fell’s Point were also overcrowded, with some students pushing toward the front or climbing through an emergency exit while others waited in the cold.
- The editorial says the buses sponsored by Student Council, the Inter-Fraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council helped many students, but that additional buses could have prevented the transportation problems.
- The article adds that organizers should expect large crowds at popular social events and plan transportation accordingly, citing earlier delays at “Shipwrecked.”