Students respond to city-wide turmoil
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
- The Johns Hopkins News-Letter reported on students’ responses to Freddie Gray’s death, Baltimore’s protests and the violence that followed.
- The paper reported that SGA executive president Janice Bonsu participated in a student protest and said students should help create a “new and sustainable normal” for Baltimore.
- The article adds that senior Dillon Ward said media coverage focused on violence and did not give equal attention to peaceful protests or police responses.
- The reporter writes that OMA director Irene Ferguson said the unrest reflected frustration among marginalized people and showed that a problem needed attention.
- The News-Letter reported that students joined cleanup efforts; senior Daniel Elkin wrote that volunteers swept broken glass outside a looted GameStop, whose owner said the store might close.
- The article says SGA executive secretary Adelaide Morphett was in contact with administrators about ways the SGA could help students support the community.