Class officer election results announced
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 class officer election results, a vice-presidential election and a referendum vote.
- The News-Letter reported that next year’s senior officers included Ravi Kavasery as president with 95 votes, Sarah Cummings as vice-president with 87, Tara Feehan as secretary/treasurer with 88, and three representatives; junior turnout was 9.5 percent.
- The paper reported that Simone Chen, Lindsay Allen, Aaron Ong, Patience Boudreaux and Anuja Vora won the junior class offices, while Ben Radel, Megan Coe, Shannon Chang, Charles Reyner and Monica Lai won the sophomore offices; candidate Manu Sharma was disqualified over a missing spending report.
- According to the article, Noel DeSantos won vice-president of institutional relations with 322 votes, and Amendment B won the referendum with 341 votes, compared with 231 for Amendment A and 102 for “no change.”
- The reporter writes that voting stations used laptops and operated in Wolman, MegaBytes and the MSE Library from noon to 9 p.m.; a Gilman station closed at 4 p.m. after drawing 20 voters.
- The article adds that Board of Elections co-chair Erika Stoddard said the three-week election process “generally went well,” while President Anuj Mittal commended the board for providing televised statements and managing the referendum.
- The News-Letter reported that some students said campaign claims and a lack of information affected the vote, while Mittal advised future council members to avoid similar problems.