U of L Referendum Results

At the start of the month the University held a referendum to vote on whether students would put money towards the new Health and Wellness Center the school is building in conjunction with some other partner. The building is a multi-million dollar endeavour that will take until 2007 to complete in its entirety. The University was asking the students to pay back into the project, over a 10 year period $2.7 million. A full time student would pay in $15 a semester and a part-time student would pay in $7.50, apparently this wouldn't cause an increase in student fees. Also this apparently has been done in the past, where the students help build the University (the library building was put up this way.)
Information can be found here:
http://www.uleth.ca/leavingalegacy/

The second part of the referendum, which was not as well publicized or known about was a vote to give CKXU, the University radio station, of which I am a member and DJ, more money each semester. We wanted to increase the student levy from $3 to $7 a semester. As you will note is mentioned on the following webpage, the CKXU vote was not published on the voting page and only upon going into voting did you find you were actually voting on two issues, unless you frequently read the student notice board (which many don't), or are a member of CKXU (which again many aren't). As our station manager was sending out information frequently preceding the referendum.
Information can be found here:
http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=1&s=4364
http://www.ckxu.com/reffaq_2.php

As one can expect the results came back as follows:
total voters 6448
total who voted 1734
% who voted 26.89%

CKXU
61.71% NO
38.29% YES

Health & Wellness Centre
33.79% NO
66.21% YES

Perhaps if the TWO votes had been equally publicized on the referendum page, things would have been different. I mean it's only $5 a semester to a primarily student run and supporting organization like CKXU, I think the student body could have afforded it. Quite frankly I am disgusted at the way things were handled and they way they turned out!