October 10, 1 989 Other Press The Other Press The Other Press is Douglas Galloge’ s democratically run, autonomous student newspaper, serving the college since 1976. A member of Canadian University Vacant Matthew Martin Advertising Manager _ - Vacant Apathy Rampant! The turn out at the Student Society elections this past week, was, as usual, very, very low. The official results aren’t available yet, but it is probably safe to say that less than one thousand students voted all total. This, in a college with a population of over 6,000. Why isn’t this surprising? Part of the problem lies with the Student Society itself. This Fall’s election was not very publicised: the banner announcing elections didn’t even have dates on it, and there was no day set aside for candidates to speak to the students. Even the broadsheets announcing that nominations were open for positions on the Represntative Committee were not very visible, and tended to get over-run with other notices on the bulletin boards. One of the biggest complaints of students in general seemed to be that they didn’t know who they were voting for. Who’s going to vote for someone they haven’t heard speak, seen a poster around campus for, or seen? I only saw one candidate actively campaigning in the concourse, but even that couldn’t have reached enough people. Unless you are telpathic, a name on a ballot slip isn’t going to tell you much about a person. The other side of the probelm lies with the student body. How bloody apathetic can we be? A levy is being charged to us for a Student Union Building. Don’t we want to know how that money is being spent, and who’s spending it? The faculty is most likely going to go on strike within the month. Don’t we want to know that the people on our student society are going to be doing everything possible to keep us up to date, and take some sort of stand on our behalf? And just as you wouldn’t elect someone to your provincial or federal govern- ment without demanding to know where they stand on the issues, we should be just as concerned, if not more so, about who we’re voting into our student society. We can’t keep being so com- placent. When things start getting rough, the Student Society is where we’re going to turn to for direction. If they don’t do what we want, it will only be our own fault: we didn’t make the effort to find out the whos, whats, whens and whys, and we didn’t make the effort to go out and vote. Tamara Gorin Are Cornflakes En anaHiiby: aes sialon’ election The Other Press adheres to the Canadian University Press Stateme of Principles, and because of this, has the right not to publish anythin, staff collective deems to he sexist, racist, homophobic or warmonger- 1g in nature. The opinions expressed in ‘he Other Press are not necessarily those oj entire staff. Any letter submissions to the Other Press will be printed verbatin ‘spelling and grammatical errors included), and must be submitted with student’ s full name and student number, with names being withhela _ (WINNIPEG) - -- Green promises fo be the catchword of the 1990s. Bvecyons now seems kecaly inter- ested in the environment. Ears perk p when people say ‘green’ and ‘the environment.’ Not surprising- lamong the media, corporations and politicians to reach the masses. And green has become very marketable as well. 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