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ASMCC leadership: a failure to communicate
It’s a repeat of last year’s student government elections: with over 26,000 students attending Mesa Community College, only one person ran for a position in student government.
That could be considered an improvement, though. Last spring, no one ran for student-government president.
This year, betty Jo Lenhart, the current vice president, was the sole candidate for president. That should be embarrassing for the MCC community, considering that MCC is the largest community college population-wise in the United States.
There were only 43 votes were cast - 22 came from the Southern and Dobson campus, while 21 came from the Red Mountain campus.
Most students who voted on April 11 weren’t even aware that elections were being held. The voting process attracted students mostly because of the free food that was being given away in conjunction with the Spring Fling celebration
Is it that students at MCC just don’t care, or did ASMCC fail to reach most of the MCC student body about elections?
It’s hard to think that the typical MCC student is that apathetic. MCC is full of bright, active and capable students.
We are vigorous in our academic pursuits, and being involved with student government is something that a lot of students would probably be interested in… if they knew that they had an opportunity to participate.
How many students knew that they had an opportunity to run for a student-government position?
Besides a few fliers posted on campus, ASMCC didn’t really let students know that they had the chance to be part of their campus government.
ASMCC is allotted thousands of dollars by MCC to put towards events and programs that benefit MCC students. According to ASMCC records, that amount is $55,000. With that much money that is for the students, ASMCC members should encourage students to participate in student government issues.
Surely, there must be more than one student on campus interested in being active in fiscal and social affairs of the student body.
But, this isn’t a surprise.
It’s the second time in two years ASMCC has been unsuccessful in soliciting student interest in elections.
Perhaps ASMCC should take a hint that obviously, something isn’t right here.