The Student Council swore in its new freshman officers at their meeting this Tuesday. Class of 2005 members President Ben Radel, Vice President Megan Coe, Secretary/Treasurer Shannon Chang and Representatives Charles Reyner, Morgan MacDonald and Manu Sharma took their oath of office in front of the older student council members present.
In an effort to promote membership in student clubs and organizations, the Student Council is creating JHU Kinex, a brochure and calendar of events for all of the student groups on campus.
The bi-monthly newsletter will allow any student group to publicize their events to the entire student body.
It is also meant to give student groups the opportunity to give updates about anything else going on in their group or share other pertinent information. Kinex will also include a bi-weekly calendar of all upcoming events.
They expect to be printing and distributing the first issues of the informational brochure by the end of November.
Any campus group is eligible to be included. All interested groups are encouraged to submit a 250 word blurb describing themselves and their group's objectives to the Student Council by Nov. 4.
The Reform Committee, which was in charge of the effort to revise the Constitution, will no longer exist as of Nov. 1.
Consequently, Constitutional revisions will have to be submitted directly to the council. The committee was deemed unnecessary by the Student Council.
Other ideas on the Student Council's agenda are plans to create a new liaison at the library, to provide shuttles to the Inner Harbor, and to produce an informational pamphlet for students about the services offered at Hopkins.
After having collected about 200 surveys from students, StuCo is hopeful about plans for Dining Service reforms. Nearly 70 percent of these surveys expressed the desire to keep Wolman open on Saturdays. This strong statistic will support the Student Council in its efforts to modify the dining hall schedule. The scheduled date for Club Night, which will be held at Bar of Baltimore, is Nov. 15.
In order to reduce the cover charge, the Student Council plans to provide buses that will get students into the club before 10 p.m., in which case the cover charge will be waived.
In addition, a survey is currently being devised by the sophomore class officers that will assess the quality of life at Hopkins.
The survey will focus on student services, security and social issues on campus and stay away from other such often-discussed topics as academics and concerns withthe meal plan.
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