Spring Fair 2019 overcomes budget constraints
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 government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers Spring Fair 2019, including its budget, concert, administration disputes and alcohol rules.
- The paper reported that the fair was open to the Baltimore community and included fireworks, a Cash Cash concert, vendors, dances, games and a beer garden.
- The article says the committee learned it was significantly in debt from earlier spending; Co-Chairs Sofya Freyman and Meera McLane said the budget cuts still left the events successful.
- The reporter writes that the Cash Cash concert sold about 1,300 tickets, while music committee member Sonomi Oyagi said choosing the group helped keep ticket prices affordable.
- According to the article, committee members said Office of Student Leadership and Involvement volunteers created operational problems, including taking away more than half of the golf carts before returning them on Sunday.
- The article adds that Director of Student Leadership and Involvement Calvin Smith, Jr. told the Student Government Association that students caught underage drinking would face a conduct meeting and hearing.
- The paper reported that Freyman and McLane wanted the University to provide more funding for future fairs, while the News-Letter said SLI had not responded by press time.