A Soldier in the War on Smoking - Editorial Observer: Logan Quinn
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 government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on Hopkins Kicks Butts’ campaign against smoking on the Homewood campus and the writer’s opposition to a proposed campus-wide ban.
- The News-Letter reported that Hopkins Kicks Butts urged the administration to move ashtrays farther from buildings.
- The paper reported that the group was seeking an all-out ban on smoking on Homewood campus.
- The article says Hopkins Kicks Butts claimed to have collected 800 signatures, while the writer reported that most students they spoke with opposed the proposal.
- The reporter writes that they are a nonsmoker but would smoke around campus and refuse to pay fines if the ban passed.