New constitution proposition would restructure StuCo, HOP
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 phrases “student government” and “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers a proposed constitution that would restructure StuCo and HOP.
- The News-Letter reported that five students presented a proposal separating policy work from social programming.
- The paper reported that the proposal would reduce Student Council from 29 to 19 members and add four elected senators per class.
- The article says HOP would organize class and school-wide events, appoint additional programmers and control social-programming funds, including a stated $40,000 budget.
- The reporter writes that the students collected signatures from 5 percent of the student body, but planned another petition after revising the proposal; a majority vote in a referendum could pass it.
- According to the article, if the referendum passed, the following year would be a transition year, with the new officer system delayed until spring 2003 elections.
- The article quotes Stephen Goutman saying, "We need to take the motivation and excitement of students who specifically can focus on social programming and let them serve in the HOP," while Meredith Price said a split "could possibly create a chance for better social programming."