SGA passes petition with 910 votes for referendum
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 covers a referendum petition, conflict-of-interest rules and upcoming student elections.
- The News-Letter reported that the SGA approved a referendum petition with 910 signatures, exceeding the 900 required.
- The paper reported that students’ most-requested referendum topics included a student center, a private police force, campus health, mental health and fossil-fuel divestment; the responses will help create the referendum questions.
- The article quotes Sam Schatmeyer thanking students and saying, “There has been energy for change on this campus for a long time, and it makes me so proud to see students working towards that change,” while noting that the referendum will need support from a third of the student body.
- The reporter writes that AJ Tsang asked SGA members not to write bills for organizations they belong to, while Lauren Paulet supported allowing them to introduce bills and abstain from voting; amendments were made to clarify the conflict-of-interest clause.
- The article adds that freshmen candidates attended a question forum and that five of six senior class council seats were open, with new senior members planned by Sept. 18.