SGA pushes for more transparency and engagement
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 an SGA meeting about “Ban the Box,” student engagement, conflicts of interest and other plans.
- The paper reported that guest speaker Stanley Andrisse urged Hopkins to support “Ban the Box,” which would stop admissions from requiring criminal-record disclosures; the article says the SGA planned to issue a formal statement supporting it.
- The article adds that the SGA planned monthly student emails, weekly online agendas, a general contact email and twice-weekly office hours in Brody Cafe.
- The reporter writes that Ash Panakam said the office hours were meant to improve communication and address concerns that the SGA was not accessible or transparent enough.
- According to the article, a new Rules Bill required senators to disclose possible conflicts and avoid voting on them; the SGA unanimously supported Boutros’s amendment replacing a broad rewards clause with one about “quid pro quo rewards.”
- The paper reported that Anthony Boutros was working with IDEAL on a Sept. 26 voter-registration event and hoped to help 2,000 students register through TurboVote before the 2018 elections.
- The article says Rushabh Doshi planned to bring a smoking-cessation resolution to the floor the following week and a revised Homewood-campus smoking-ban resolution two weeks later.