Looks like Concordia students are heeding the call to get out and vote.
High turnout at CSU elections
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Looks like Concordia students are heeding the call to get out and vote.
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Even the big turnout that they’re claiming is unlikely to raise the numbers to anything over 10%. Imagine that, an entire University dragged into ridicule by a tenth of the student body. In the Hall Building this afternoon (I went to see the word sculpture near the library, and ran into another of those SPHR “dead Palestinian baby photos” displays), there seemed to be a decent number of people standing in front of a voting table.
Actually, the student body is 23,000 undergrads. 10% would be 2,300, which is considerably less than the 3,300 record turnout of last spring’s election. If they beat that this year, as expected, a turnout of say 4,000 would be 17% of the student body.
It’s still pathetically low, though. If even 30-40% of students voted, that would be 7000-8000 students, and would be more representative of the students’ interests. As it stands, a tiny proportion of students are affecting things for everyone else, and it’s really a shame.
I guess we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see the results.
Sorry… I got the 10% figure from an article in The Link that I picked up. The quote was from the Concordia alumni association head, so I’ll defer to your statistics. In case you’re wondering, turnout at McGill usually averages in the low 20%’s range, but this year was up to something like 27 or 28% (and passed accreditation, which needs a 25% quorum). We still bitch that SSMU doesn’t represent us, but at least they’ve managed not to be a complete embarassment.
Oh, and it wasn’t the Hall building, but (obviously) the library building that I was in yesterday. Not that it really matters, but does the CSU (or anyone) have jurisdiction over the main lobby of the library?
That sucks that McGill passed accreditation. Many of our problems at Concordia started when the CSU accredited itself – and people didn’t know that they should’ve voted no, unfortunately. So now Concordia’s stuck with a union that nobody has any control over.