Another troubled year
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 reports on the 2003–04 Hopkins Student Council election process and its unresolved presidential race.
- The News-Letter reported that freshman turnout rose after online voting and better promotion, before freshman Jered Ede submitted a constitutional referendum that passed 389–322.
- The paper reported that the change voided the old constitution and bylaws, replaced three class representatives with four senators and halted council operations until new elections.
- The article adds that the replacement election was held on short notice, prompting complaints that it was rushed and poorly promoted; Ede said one person did not run because there was not enough time to gather votes.
- The reporter writes that executive-president candidate Soren Gandrud was disqualified for alleged negative campaigning, later reinstated, and that the Board of Elections then redid the presidential vote.
- According to the article, Gandrud and Hyder Syed each received 397 votes in the April election, so a special election was scheduled because no executive president had been chosen.