SGA class council elections reveal high turnout
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 2019–20 SGA class council elections, their turnout and the plans of some winners.
- The News-Letter reported that votes rose from 928 to 1,508, while turnout increased from 23.3 percent to 37.9 percent of eligible students.
- The paper reported that Pavan Patel, Isaac Lucas and Nathan Mudrak won the senior, junior and sophomore class presidencies with 218, 337 and 259 votes, respectively.
- The article says Patel plans to continue mental-health initiatives, Lucas plans more class events and school-spirit efforts, and Mudrak plans to reduce stress and encourage students to leave campus.
- The reporter writes that 536 rising seniors, 432 rising juniors and 540 rising sophomores voted, and lists the students elected to each class council.
- According to the article, only 27.8 percent of eligible class council members were re-elected, and AJ Tsang attributed the turnover to jobs, internships, studying abroad, early graduation and personal commitments.
- The article adds that Tsang said next year’s councils would be more diverse and that every class council position had a candidate or was contested.