How well advertised does it need to be? I saw posters for it at the MSC, it was posted on the OAL Lab computers, and there was also an e-mail sent out over NEO with a link to the voting website. Do they also need to cars driving around campus 24/7 broadcasting it on their PA system?
I heard about it but honestly, if I wouldn't have gotten that e-mail that allowed me to make 2 clicks and vote, then I wouldn't have voted, sorry.
Talk to some people and ask if they voted. A majority of the people I know knew about it but didn't feel like taking a few seconds to vote. Just like with presidential elections. We know they are there but look at how many Americans still do not take the time to go vote. With our busy schedule it can be hard to keep track of what date the voting is to be done on.
It is an accurate portrayal of what the students here at A&M want. The ones who didn't vote obviously were not concerned enough to take the time to vote. I know I wasn't.
But honestly, it is done. Move on and find the next thing to gripe about. Something that can be changed. If you think it wasn't well advertised, then do something about it. For the next election, run around telling everybody instead of sitting behind your computer whining about it.

They didn't send out a NEO email. If Georg got one, then he must be special, because it certainly wasn't sent to every student (like it should have been). That email would have definitely increased voter turnout. When you have less than 15% of the student body even voting, you can't blame the student body.

I don't recall a student email. In fact, I specifically remember having to search for 15min to find the site where to vote at because it was important to me.

With the exception of an email telling about an informational about the renovations they were going to do sent out over a month ago and the two mail calls in the Batt the week of voting, I didn't even know about the voting for MSC renovations until I was in there with my family before a football game. So no, it wasn't well advertised. They ran a scare tactic on the student body claiming that if you didn't support the fee increase you weren't a true Aggie and the majority of the ones that saw it were the freshman still too naive to question what they were being told.

Apparently college students need their hands held in order to make decisions about the future of their school and their money.

I didn't get an email, but I was able to remember due to posters, articles in the batt, there were some stickers reminding people to vote, ads on the OAL labs, and the simple fact that I was concerned enough to remember.

And btw, I can't fathom searching for the voting website for 15 mins. I googled "tamu vote" and it was the first link. Also if you use tamu.edu to search, it's the first link as well. No excuse.

I agree with Manda. I believe that the referendum was advertised well through msc staff wearing shirts, stickers, flyers, staff speaking to organizations, posters up in the msc at open house and football games, articles in the batt numerous times, and through their website (which was not hard to find).

Now I know some people do not go to the msc very much, myself included. But there were plenty of other outlets and ways to get information about the referendum.

There may have been stickers and shirts (which I don't recall seeing) and flyers in places where not everyone goes, but there still hasn't been an answer as to why an email wasn't sent out to every student through their NEO accounts. Why is that questioned being avoided? That would have been the most effective means to get the word out. I say we have a revote, this time informing the students of the dates for voting via NEO... but I know that won't happen. One can dare to dream, though.

If this referendum did not pass I think the project would have still be ultimately approved. Although alternative funding would have been used and the start date would have been pushed further into the future. $60 is alot of money, but A&M still has some of the cheapest cost of education around especially for the benefit we receive.