It’s on Student Association to remedy low voter turnout
Will Fudge | Staff Photographer
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Syracuse University’s Student Association closed its 2021-22 election polls on Thursday with 10.2% of the vote to elect David Bruen, Darnelle Stintfort and Nyah Jones as president, vice president and comptroller, respectively, in an uncontested election. We call SA a government, one which advocates for student interests above all else. However, it cannot possibly advocate for those interests without the voice of the student body.
There will be some who argue that this turnout was directly caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet I believe that it is a symptom of poor public relations and student apathy, which cannot be solved without direct policy changes.