Student Government doesn’t advertise proactively about the open forums. I support Matt Johnson’s views written in the viewpoint section of Technician today, however I believe the editorial is lacking addressing one major point in all of this: advertisement.

Do the students actually know what’s going on? If Kelly Hook and the rest of the Student Government are really interested in getting the students’ opinions, should they not advertise more? They certainly advertise themselves to get voted to their positions, but it seems it all quiets down from then on.

Campus Activities and UAB advertise more than the Student Government.  Who actually visits the students.ncsu.edu webpage? Not everyone has a chance to read the Technician everyday. More so, most engineering students are always on Centennial Campus. That’s a big chunk of the student body right there. What advertisement has the Student Government done on Centennial Campus?

While Student Government claims that they advertise via their students.ncsu website and some sandwich boards outside of Witherspoon, etc, in order for students to know about these happenings, they really have to be proactive about it and search for updates. At the end of the day, most students don’t participate because it’s too much work to get that information. Why even try when their views just get lost in the business and politics of the Student Government, endorsers, and the UNC Board?

Fine, so let’s accept that the Student Government actually does everything it can to advertise and maybe I just didn’t know about it, but has anyone taken a look at the meeting minutes on the students.ncsu.edu page? These “minutes” are useless. How is someone that missed the meeting supposed to find out what’s going on?

The point is that the SG barely advertises these “open forums.” Would students come out even if they were proactively advertised? Probably no. Why? Because the Student Government has continued to say “*explicit* You” to the students through their actions over the past few years and this year. A lack of common sense on Student Government’s part (for example: any idiot could have predicted the chaos that would happen due to a lack of student tickets for the Virginia Tech game) over the past few years has resulted in a lack of trust and care from the student body.

I’d hope that your future editorials and articles address the complete view and not just an elaborate statement of “here’s what happened, don’t complain if you didn’t take part of it, although students possibly have another reason why they didn’t participate.”

Honestly, for a school newspaper run by students, I find the Technician always stating the obvious in light of being politically correct. Yet, it fails to cover the entire issue.

Hersh Shah

senior, mechanical engineering