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Show Signpost of s s e n l u f e s u s n o i t s e u q studeenntt lection campaigns renew aah are air e stud To the editor, ee = I’ma 3 : student at Weber State. percent of the student body even _ find an answer to this question. voted in last year’selections. (Note — So I'd like to ask the readers of ofinterest to the reader: Ididn’t. | The Signpost and see what they have to say. Here’s my quesI talk to people, read The Sign- _ wasn’t a student last year.) | : | tion: see I campus, around As I walk post, and generally try to stay in this all wasting we are Why _touchwithwhat’shappeningon _ posters, leaflets (some actually atwood and paper to advertise campus. I’ve read about how _ tached to trees), and signs touting these elections when nobody the majority of next year’s stu- __ the different candidates. cares anyway? really — of all about think and see I As are either offices senate dent . to coming keeps question one this, uncontested or are not being I don’t wish to sound ‘sought at all. 1 remember read- my mind. ing last year that only about 10 uncaring or ignorant, but I can’t Ny a Michael Martin WSU Student candidates offer diversity to student body Now that student body elections are finally coming to a close, it is nice to see that there is a little diversity in] candidates that are running for office. Different ages, | ideas, backgrounds and ethnic groups are represented | , Hai i} and battling it out, to fill the 19 student government seats. | - Complaints have been made in the past about the} student government all fitting the "same type of image. | Perhaps that is because approximately 10 percent of the} student body usually votes, the other 90 percent is not | exercising their voice. ee oo Hopefully, the elected student government will be! diverse in not only attitudes, but in ideas. If the student} government has unicultured ideas, then they will not} effectively be representing the varied student voice. | After all, the entire university is not comprised of} white anglo saxon Mormons. Many of the students at Weber State Univesity do not fit this image, so neither, : # should all of the elected representatives. If students want to see concrete changes in the univer-| sity, then the only way that can happen is if they vote for] the candidates of his/her choice. The polls officially; — close today at 2 p.m. | Kelly Farnsworth | Editor in chief of THE SIGNPOST| |
