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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 article covers National Voter Registration Day, Hopkins Votes and ways students can take part in civic life.
- The News-Letter reported that Hopkins Votes brought together the Center for Social Concern, IDEAL and the Student Government Association to encourage voter registration through tabling and open-house events.
- The paper reported that Hopkins Votes used the University’s TurboVote partnership to simplify voter registration and promote broader political involvement.
- The article adds that student advocacy for better disability facilities was followed by construction of a new Office of Student Disability Services.
- The reporter writes that the Board of Trustees voted in 2017 to remove thermal coal from the University’s endowment after Refuel Our Future called for full fossil-fuel divestment.
- According to the article, lawmakers pulled a proposed private-police-force bill for further review in May 2018 after students organized, and the University later said its yearly ICE contracts would not be renewed after months of protests.
- The article says students can contact the SGA about campus concerns because student representatives can advocate for issues and make smaller community changes.