StuCo must look toward the future - Closer to home
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 reactions to Jared Ede’s student-government constitution victory and the proposed transition.
- The paper reported that Rob Freundlich called the vote a “farce” and said people who voted for the constitution “didn't get it.”
- The article says Charles Reyner questioned why anyone would replace the existing system, while Ede said student government “needs to be more responsive to the people.”
- The reporter writes that Reyner planned to weaken Ede’s oversight structures, including the Committee on Finance, through new procedural rules.
- The article urges opponents to invite Ede into discussions and include his ideas, saying this could reduce tension during the transition.
- The paper adds that Freundlich and others saw the transition as a main source of opposition and were angry that an outsider had brought disruption to student government.