SGA approves Beta tailgate funding, faces Advocacy and Awareness suit
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 covers SGA funding for a Beta Theta Pi tailgate and a Judiciary case over club funding.
- The News-Letter reported that the SGA approved the Big Blue Jay Tailgate bill with 20 of 22 votes, after closing the meeting to the press for debate; Executive Vice President Kyra Toomre said the event’s timing made the decision difficult.
- The paper reported that recruitment concerns were part of the debate because the tailgate could benefit Beta before recruitment season; Toomre said, “People had all sorts of reservations, but yes, one of them was due to recruitment… Everyone thinks that it is a good event. Well, at least the majority. It is just the timing issue,”
- The article says several groups filed a Judiciary case over reduced funding, and that the College Democrats, College Republicans, Voice for Choice, Voice for Life and Students for Environmental Action joined the suit.
- According to the article, a bill passed in April entitled Advocacy and Awareness groups to receive $300 annually from the Student Activities Commission if they met application deadlines; President Janice Bonsu said 13 groups applied.
- The reporter writes that Bonsu said the groups could receive about $518 each under equal funding, while the SGA and the groups met to try to resolve the case without Judiciary intervention.