Freshman class elects officers
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 News-Letter article covers the 2003 freshman class elections, their voting rules and disputes.
- The News-Letter reported that Jae Jin was elected president, Laura Hansell vice president, Beverly Lee secretary-treasurer, and Rebecca Shrago and Ron Benjamin class representatives; 582 students voted.
- The paper reported that the BoE replaced ranked-choice voting with a system in which the candidate with the most votes won; Charles Reyner criticized the change, while Matt Bouloubasis said, "We just went to simple "a vote is a vote is a vote,'" Bouloubasis said.
- According to the article, voter turnout rose from 38 percent to 55 percent, though full statistics had not been released; the article also reported that representative candidate Elizabeth Fialkowski was disqualified for not submitting a spending report.
- The News-Letter reported that a witness said a presidential candidate took students' cards and voted for themself; the anonymous candidate said the action was voluntary and that the candidate had not seen a rule against it, but was not elected.
- The article says unauthorized flyers targeting female voters appeared in Wolman, and that their identified creator, Stephen Sandford, could face disciplinary action; it adds that candidates' responses were largely dismissive.