Radel, Coe among freshman class winners
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 the 2005 freshman class elections, their results and campaign issues.
- The News-Letter reported that Ben Radel won president, Megan Coe won vice president, Shannon Chang won secretary/treasurer, and Morgan MacDonald, Charles Reyner and Manu Sharma won representative seats; seven candidates ran for president and representative.
- The paper reported that candidates needed petitions signed by 10 percent of the freshman class and had a $100 campaign budget; candidate Michael Cho said the election was fair and that its ranking system helped voters and candidates.
- The article says Radel wanted to make Levering a student union, bring more outside music to campus and work on the living wage of regular workers, while Coe said she wanted to focus on social programming and events.
- The reporter writes that a candidate forum covered meal-plan exchanges, a student union, shuttle services, freshman social events and student involvement on campus and in Baltimore.
- According to the article, Sophia Shakur questioned whether some campaign ideas were realistic, while presidential candidate Toliy Samoylov said the election was organized and reflected voters’ opinions, though many students did not take it seriously.