Our very own Johns Hopkins soap opera, Student Council style
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 covers turmoil in the Student Council after a new constitution, disputed elections and leadership delays.
- The News-Letter reported that the new constitution displaced several officers, three presidential elections were voided after corruption and campaign complaints, and the council had gone six months without a president.
- The paper reported that freshman Jared Ede drafted the constitution and that four senators per class replaced the previous representatives, forming a 16-member Student Assembly.
- The article says the new bylaws rewrote the council’s procedures and temporarily detached the Student Activities Commission from executive oversight.
- The reporter writes that campaign complaints led the Board of Elections to discard a presidential election, while Director Jeff Groden-Thomas removed BoE co-chair Rick Aseltine because he was a part-time student.
- According to the article, junior Soren Gandrud and sophomore Hyder Syed tied 397-397, a runoff was canceled and postponed, and veteran members temporarily provided interim leadership while the council remained without a president.