Student group calls for campus smoking ban
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 covers a student group’s proposal for a smoke-free Homewood campus.
- The News-Letter reported that Hopkins Kicks Butt was seeking a campus-wide smoking ban, with a proposed $15 fine and a goal of making the University smoke-free by 2012.
- The paper reported that CHEW, Stressbusters, the Women’s Pre-Health Leadership Society and PEEPS had signed the group’s petition.
- The article says administrators were working with the group on an initial step involving signs and moving cigarette receptacles away from buildings; Sarah Durica said the ashtrays had already been moved.
- The reporter writes that HKB described secondhand smoke as its main concern and that Policy Chair Preston Kramer called smoking problems at Hopkins “pretty potent.”
- The article adds that responses were mixed: Kramer reported broad support, while Student Council Executive Vice President Evan Lazerowitz and students Reid Ginsburg and Matt Stankiewicz raised concerns about an outdoor ban.