Turnout soars for freshman 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 reports on the 2006 freshman Student Council elections, their turnout and the candidates’ campaigns.
- The News-Letter reported that Tyler Krus and Nathan Levin were elected president and vice president of the class of 2010, with 574 freshman votes cast.
- The paper reported that Krus and Levin used shirts and a personalized website to campaign; Krus said they wanted campus leadership experience for the next four years.
- The article adds that Levin wanted to represent classmates and avoid repeating his previous mistake of not campaigning, while Joshua Loveall said their advertising made more students aware of the election.
- The reporter writes that Laura Hansell attributed the turnout to rising participation, greater trust in the Committee for Student Elections and freshmen’s interest in campus involvement.
- According to the article, candidates had five days to campaign before three days of online voting, and Krus and Levin each came close to the $300 spending limit.
- The paper reported that Evan Lazerowitz found campaigning useful for meeting students, and said the election may have had the highest turnout in the records cited by Jeremy Batoff.