The Constitutional Council heard Fourth-year Legislator Sun Woo Park’s (19Ox, 21C) petition alleging unconstitutional conduct during the spring 2021 Student Government Association (SGA) elections on April 8. Five days later, the Council delivered its verdict. The SGA hearing for the Park v. Steffel et. al case occurred over Zoom on April 13. (Gabriella Lewis) All [...]
Read MoreThe spring 2021 Student Government Association (SGA) elections were thrown into disarray last week when Fourth-year College Council (CC) Legislator Sun Woo Park (19Ox, 21C) made public accusations of electoral violations, alleging that Rhea Kumar (22C) and Nick Paschetto’s (22C) campaign intimidated voters and that current SGA President Lori Steffel (21C) and BBA Council President [...]
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans encroached on millions of their own constituents’ right to vote with the passage of Senate Bill 202 on March 25, which will severely limit Georgians’ access to the polls. Instead of immediately stepping up to fight the law as CEOs of Delta and Coca-Cola should have, the two large Atlanta-based corporations took a [...]
Read MoreIn the wake of former President Donald Trump’s repeated bogus claims of electoral fraud, Georgia Republican state legislators have taken aggressive measures to limit voting rights with the omnibus voting rights law SB 202. The bill, which passed in a party-line vote in the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp last [...]
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The Student Government Association and College Council passed resolutions which support renaming the Donna & and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. (Ally Hom, Contributing Photographer) Last week, Emory University President Gregory L. Fenves refused to change the name of the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. This announcement followed a vote from [...]
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