Discuss “Students ignore mayoral election”

Last week Mayor Luke Ravenstahl was elected and Carnegie Mellon seems not to have noticed. Students, generally, ignored that an election was taking place.

While it’s likely that many students couldn’t have voted in the election because they aren’t registered in Pennsylvania, students who were eligible to vote were largely apathetic. Among the informed, a bigger issue was surely more troubling — neither of the candidates focused on any issues that directly impacted students.

The Tartan did not endorse either candidate because we felt that neither of them had plans that spoke to the biggest issues faced by students. While we did provide information on both candidates leading up to the election to encourage students to make their own...