Students should be kept informed
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 the delayed release of SGA Executive Board election results and the debate over informing students.
- The News-Letter reported that Director of Student Activities Rob Turning released the results nearly a month after the election because of an appeals process over treasury candidate Schaefer Whiteaker’s disqualification.
- The paper reported that students were not told about the delay or appeals process, while the Committee on Student Elections said updates were withheld to “avoid confusion and clogging up students’ inboxes.”
- The article says the editorial board believed students should receive regular updates, noting that the election would decide who represented students and that turnout reached a record level.
- The reporter writes that SGA and the elections committee had used advertising and school-wide emails to increase turnout, while the editorial board called for timely results and more information for students.