The Government of the Student Body has placed “gripe” boxes throughout campus for students to deposit complaints, but GSB members are not seeing the results they had hoped for.

As of Wednesday afternoon, GSB members said they had received no complaint cards in the gripe box outside the GSB office.

“We thought this project would be a great way to allow students to voice their opinions while still remaining anonymous if they choose,” said Dawn Kanoski, GSB co-director of public information. “However, the idea hasn’t gone over as well as I had hoped.”

Boxes were placed in Ross Hall, College of Design, Carver Hall, Beardshear Hall and outside the GSB office in the Memorial Union.

Marcia Johnson, off campus, said she did not know if responses had been placed in any of the other boxes.

“There are gripe boxes distributed all throughout the campus,” she said. “We don’t know how things are going because we haven’t counted them yet.”

GSB President Bryan Burkhardt said a couple GSB members got the idea for anonymous complaint cards after attending a Big 12 student government conference in Oklahoma.

“We thought we would try a similar idea, but more organized,” he said.

Burkhardt said he hoped the idea would improve GSB and give students an opportunity to get involved.

“This will be a great way for next year’s leaders to tackle issues that we weren’t able to take on,” he said.

Michael Pogge, LAS, said he felt the lack of responses was not an indication of intense student apathy.

“It doesn’t necessarily mean that no one cares. It’s always a possibility that students are neutral and don’t have anything to gripe about,” he said. “Part of it might be student apathy, but it could also be that people may be happy with GSB and what it’s doing.”

Johnson disagreed and said the low response rate was indeed an indicator of apathy.

“I think it’s a terrible cycle,” she said. “You try to get students involved to find out why they are so apathetic, but they won’t talk because they are apathetic.”

Stephanie Loeschen, international, said she also was disappointed by the response level.

“I think student involvement in GSB is unfortunately minimal — you can tell by the number of people at the meetings,” she said. “I think students do care, but only when it touches them personally.”

Alex Olson, off campus, said despite the apparent lack of interest, gripe boxes were a good idea.

“I believe that it is very good that students have the opportunity to talk to us and give us ideas and input,” he said.

Burkhardt said he would remain optimistic about the gripe boxes until the week is over.

“We are making progress. You never know how it’s going to turn out,” he said. “Hopefully we can gain some more constructively critical comments from students.”