Freshman class elects the first female president in four years
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 “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on the 2018 SGA Freshman Class Council elections and the issues raised by candidates.
- The paper reported that Eunice Namkoong won the presidency with 193 votes, a three-vote lead, becoming the first female freshman class president in four years; the freshman senators were Nathan Mudrak, Mehak Ali, Kylie Sharron, Alexander Forlenza and Pritika Parmar.
- The article says Eric Armstrong won the sixth senate seat after he and Grace Wang each received 193 votes, following a vote by the SGA.
- The reporter writes that Executive Vice President AJ Tsang attributed the decision to a bylaw change that ended runoff elections and required a two-thirds Senate vote.
- According to the article, Namkoong wanted students to become more involved in Baltimore, while Parmar proposed an anonymous form for freshman concerns and Ali called for greater SGA accountability.
- The News-Letter reported that 57 percent of the Class of 2022 voted, down from 59 percent of the Class of 2021; five candidates ran for president and 18 for senate.