I would just like to point out that maybe GSB doesn’t need to be concerned about apathy, but advertising.

I read the Daily every day, front to back. Yes, I saw the full-page spread showing the ballot. It announced times and places to vote, but my greatest frustration was that there was no mention of DAY. I assumed it was that day, which was a pity because I was too busy to run over to the nearest voting spot. Had I known ahead of time, I could have made sure I had that time.

Furthermore, there is a reason why most governments publish ballots a week before the vote is taken. It is to give voters time to consider the candidates, maybe research them if there hasn’t been much published.

In this case it would have given people time to read the proposed constitution, and to read the changes captioned to the side, to consider if the changes were for the better or not. All that is beside the fact that the ad, printed on the day of the election, was the first time I had heard of an election for this semester.

So I read an ad, with no day given for the election, to ask me to consider a lengthy constitution and decide on it. With that kind of short, non-notice, how could I have cast an informed vote?

Jeni Nosbisch

Junior

German