President Michael Crow addressed students at an open forum on the Downtown campus Tuesday afternoon and answered questions ranging from technical difficulties to the football team to growing ASU’s smaller campuses.

The forum was broadcast to the other three campuses, but turnout was low across all four locations. About 30 people attended the Downtown forum, where Crow spoke in person.

Students asked about issues, such as scholarships, for undocumented students and Wi-Fi on inter-campus shuttles.

Crow said he was glad a Polytechnic student asked why there was no Wi-Fi, because he had requested the service in the past.

“The Wi-Fi should work all the time and we’re trying to find a way to get it on the light rail, but we don’t run that,” Crow said.

Expanding the Downtown, Polytechnic and West campuses was also a key discussion point.

“Expansion of the University is part of our overall strategy,” Crow said. “One potential idea is to move the law school to the Downtown campus; another idea that we’re working on are academic villages on the West and Poly campuses, and a third residential tower on the Downtown campus.”

After the forum, Crow said he thought the event went well.

“The students asked some constructive questions,” he said. “It would be good if we had a few more students. I think it would be good if students had the option to e-mail their questions to their student leaders.”

Associated Students of Arizona State University Downtown President Tania Mendes, a journalism sophomore, said getting a big turnout for events like the forum has been a struggle.

“We literally had neon signs around campus with arrows pointing the way,” Mendes said. “We tabled for two days, getting students to write questions on note cards and talking to them about attending the forum.

We think turnout is something that will increase more and more as these forums become more regular.”

E-mailing questions is something that she would implement before the next forum, Mendes said.

“We did have one student e-mail us a question and it wasn’t like we didn’t ask it, but it wasn’t something we advertised,” she said. “I think that’s a great suggestion and something we will advertise for the next forum.”

Students rarely show up to ask questions in person because they are sometimes apathetic, Mendes said.

“Sometimes students just get caught up in every day things,” she said. “I don’t think students really care that much unless it is something big, like raising tuition.”

Food and nutrition management freshman Sabrina Pizarro said she attended the forum because she was invited by friends, but was surprised by the topics that were covered.

“I thought this was mainly going to talk about the facilities fee, but a lot of different types of questions were asked. I ended up finding out about a lot of things that I didn’t know about,” she said. “I think more people would have come if they knew what it was going to be about.”

Reach the reporter at sheydt@asu.edu.