Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...perennial problem with our student government is student disinterest. Voter turnout for the presidential election is less than 50 percent. Each year the council wonders how to increase the tie between the undergraduates the governing body that "represents" them. Perhaps a regular corner in The Crimson? Maybe each member should hold office hours? A newsletter published on the web? All these suggestions to no avail. The majority of students remain blissfully ignorant of what exactly the council does...
Despite the dramatic increase in the quantity and prominence of the media's political coverage in recent weeks, voter apathy and disinterest remains unaffected, according to a report released by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...
First, we are extremely politically apathetic. Many of us did not even bat an eyelash when we exercised our democratic right by voting for the Undergraduate Council president last month. We clicked a few arrows to register our choices with the same disinterest with which we renew our library books. The election came and went, without an effective debate among students about campus-wide initiatives, structural changes or reform...