14 percent of seniors vote to fill SGA vacancies
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 special elections to fill vacancies in the SGA Senior Class Council.
- The article reports that election officials announced the results on Sept. 17 after five seats remained vacant from the May elections.
- The paper reported that 187 seniors voted, or 14.3 percent of eligible students, and that Ash Panakam, Fatima Bouftas, Madeleine Uraih, Akshay Bhamidipati and Gianni Thomas were elected.
- The article says Thomas linked the lower turnout to student apathy and quoted him saying, “Students feel like even if they do run, their voice won’t be heard.”
- The reporter writes that officials chose a special election because five of seven seats were vacant and about 20 students initially expressed interest; AJ Tsang said, “With five out of the seven seats on the Class Council missing, we arrived at the conclusion that the class should have a democratic say in who it was.”
- The article adds that candidates did not need petitions for the special election, unlike in May, and quoted Bhamidipati saying SGA’s role is “primarily advisory.”
- The News-Letter reported that one Junior Class Council seat remained open after Jessup Jong’s resignation, with a replacement expected to be chosen by Sept. 25.