Staff Editorial: A victory for StuCo
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 the results of the 2005 freshman class election and the Student Council election system.
- The News-Letter reported that turnout reached 64.2%, compared with about 46% in the previous five years, and credited Atin Agarwal, the Committee on Student Elections and the Class of 2009.
- The paper reported that the new voting system used JHED IDs and passwords and was designed by Hopkins graduate students under Avi Rubin, an electronic-voting expert.
- The article adds that Agarwal handled much of the election oversight and says future executive presidents should have as little involvement as possible.
- The reporter writes that the article expected the freshman election’s success might not extend to upperclassmen, whom it described as disillusioned with StuCo.
- According to the article, 744 students were already invested in StuCo’s vision, while the organization still needed to give more students a reason to vote.