Looking back at controversy
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 looks back one year after the Sigma Chi controversy and discusses the lack of campus dialogue about race and multiculturalism.
- The paper reported that hearings, punishments, assigned readings and Student Council bills followed the controversy, but questioned whether they produced real change.
- The article says the University had been inactive in addressing prejudice and urges it to change Hopkins’ culture, not only increase enrollment of Black students.
- The reporter writes that Hopkins contains separate, insular communities and says peer organizations should help create open, participatory dialogue.
- The paper reported that Student Council was not sufficiently connected to students and that the BSU continued to call for dialogue but had not been a visible campus presence.
- According to the article, Student Council and the BSU should work with the University to create one community for all Hopkins students.