J Street U student Town Hall an important opportunity
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 “sga”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article presents Jenny Ferentz’s reasons for attending a J Street U student Town Hall and discusses student political advocacy at Hopkins.
- The paper reported that more than 300 students, experts, activists and political figures were expected at the campus Town Hall to support U.S. leadership for a two-state solution.
- The article adds that Secretary of State John Kerry had called for a “Great Constituency for Peace” and that the author viewed the event as timely.
- The reporter writes that university rules prevented political advocacy groups from receiving annual funding, and that the College Democrats and College Republicans had lost their budgets.
- According to the article, advocacy and awareness groups, including J Street U, had formed an alliance to endorse an SGA ticket working to restore annual funding.
- The article says J Street U chapters had opened discussion about the conflict at more than 55 college campuses, and a note says the Town Hall had already occurred by the time the article was uploaded.