SGA discusses smoking restrictions
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 an SGA discussion about proposed campus smoking restrictions.
- The News-Letter reported that the SGA considered a resolution supporting secondhand-smoke education but calling for evidence that the proposals would improve health.
- The paper reported that the Hopkins Kicks Butts proposal included a campus-wide tobacco ban, peer enforcement, a $15 penalty per violation and 50-foot smoking zones.
- The article says freshman class president Wyatt Larkin called the proposal impractical, while HKB President Sarah Durica argued that people have a right to clean air and that secondhand smoke poses health risks.
- The reporter writes that the first proposed step was a 30-foot smoking limit near buildings, while senior senator Abigail Duggan questioned whether a ban could work and junior senator Dan Teran opposed forcing people to change their behavior based on uncertain statistics.
- The article adds that HKB reported about 850 petition signatures and administrator support, but the SGA ended the meeting by tabling the proposal until the next week’s meeting in Mason Hall at 7 p.m.