Four members of Ohio University Student Senate are supplementing today's first-ever online election with a Web site that contains information and opinions about the McDavis administration ballot initiative.
The site, www.getinformedou.com, presents the ballot initiative with links to information, newspaper articles and opinions from student leaders.
The goal of the Web site is to give students a place to find real information, rather than rumors, said Morgan Allen, Student Senate president.
We want people to be really informed when they go to vote instead of voting one way because that's how their roommate voted or something
she said. We want them to have the facts to form their own opinions.
A list of university committees with student representation is available on the site, including groups still in the planning stages. The site also includes information about decisions made without student representation, along with links to articles about these decisions.
Graduate Student Senate President Dominic Barbato, one of the creators of the site, said the list of decisions did not originally include the alcohol policy changes and some listed committees are only in their early stages. He said he sees how site might be perceived as pro-McDavis
I don't think that there's that type of agenda I just think it can be read that way
he said. I think it's fair to say it's biased in more than one direction.
Because the list of decisions made without student input was originally limited to decisions made since Winter Quarter, it did not include Fall-Quarter alcohol policy changes, Allen said. It was added to the site last night after issues with its exclusion were raised.
It's been our goal to keep (the site) as unbiased as possible
Allen said. The people that created the Web site all have different opinions and will probably be voting in completely different ways.
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