Proposal to reform BoE faces delay - StuCo President-elect appeals postponed vote
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 delayed vote on proposed changes to Student Council elections.
- The News-Letter reported that the Board of Elections delayed six proposed amendments, including one that would abolish the Board, after Student Council President-elect Atin Agarwal appealed to hold the vote during Thursday’s election.
- The paper reported that the Board cited the late submission of petitions and said the vote would occur on a date not yet set; Co-Chair Michael Seibert said it would likely happen before the academic year ended.
- The article says the proposed replacement, a Committee on Student Elections, would oversee future elections, with managerial oversight from the Student Council executive president and the director of student involvement.
- Reporter Brendan Schreiber writes that Agarwal said repeated election problems led him to propose abolishing the Board, while Seibert called the proposal “antagonistic.”
- The article adds that five other amendments would change Student Council’s constitution, including allowing it to amend the constitution without a student vote and changing how class-delegation vacancies are filled.