StuCo attempts to reform
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 “student government” and “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article discusses proposed reforms to Student Council and the limits the paper sees in them.
- The News-Letter reported that the proposed constitution would reduce Student Council from 29 members to 19, rename class officers as senators and replace several vice presidencies with two programming and activities chairs.
- The paper reported that the article linked Student Council’s limited effectiveness to short student terms, competing demands on members and low stakes for students.
- The article adds that the reforms were a positive but small step and would not by themselves create a more responsive or effective council.
- The reporter writes that the quality of Student Council depends on community attention to elections and demands on elected members, rather than their titles.