University's apathy toward election is unacceptable

Editor,

This is in response to a letter on Tuesday from a disappointed student, uninterested in voting in the ASUNM elections today. Student apathy regarding ASUNM's lack of proper representation is understandable, but it is not acceptable. There is a reason ASUNM has been ineffective for so long. The same senators are elected by certain groups and represent those groups and no one else. This is because those special interest groups continue to vote for their friends, while the rest of the

students pay them no mind and turn up their iPods. Apathy toward the ASUNM elections will only keep these ineffective senators in ASUNM, continuing an endless cycle of a defective student government and a student body that complains about it.

Positive change can happen, but it takes effort. This year, it won't take all that much effort, because the student body will be allowed to vote entirely online. Things can change if people just give it a chance to occur. Katryn Fraher, the presidential candidate on the PAC slate, believes the same. In order to make that change, students must get involved with the ASUNM election process. Change can't happen with apathy and no effort.

If it matters to anyone what this humble biology student thinks, I will vote for the PAC slate because I believe it has the students' best interest at heart. For PAC members, it doesn't seem like a popularity contest or an opportunity to season a rÇsumÇ. Fraher was director of the student chapter of NMPIRG. To me, this shows that she will work with the student body and for the student body. As a student, that's all I ask for. To accomplish this change, all I must do is vote.

Arthur Sedore

UNM student