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Sentimental reps. reflect
on past year at last meeting

CSG members discuss tuition
policy with U.S. Rep. Hansen

Assembly votes
against resolution
to use iClickers
during meetings
By GIACOMO BOLOGONA
Daily StaffReporter
The Central Student Govern-
ment assembly met last night
for its final meeting before the
newly elected representatives
take their seats next week.
At the end of every meet-
ing, representatives are given
the opportunity to address the
assembly. Typically, represen-
tatives discuss new initiatives
or resolutions, but this week,
several exiting members took
the opportunity to recount their
CSG careers, express their grati-
tude and even shed a few tears.
Business senior Matt Eral,
speaker of the assembly, led the
last meeting of his college career
before delivering his own speech
to the assembly.
"I think it was a great way to
end the first assembly," Eral said.
"I think everyone just reflected
on the year, thanked everyone

for an awesome experience."
Eral said the assembly had a
"phenomenal" year, discussing a
total of 64 resolutions.
"Throughout the course of the
year, we essentially 100 percent
redefined how that body oper-
ates from rules to votes to time
limits," Eral said. "We passed
budgets for $700,000 of stu-
dents' money, changed rules for
how we fund student (organiza-
tions), passed initiatives on their
behalf (and) ran big events."
The meeting, which mostly
tied up loose ends of the assem-
bly's term, had only one item of
new business - a resolution to
purchase iClickers for repre-
sentatives to use for voting and
attendance purposes.
Discussion of the resolution
took up the longest portion of the
assembly's meeting before being
closely voted down 10-9, with
two representatives abstaining.
Engineering junior Kyle
Summers, CSG chief of staff,
authored the resolution and said
the iClickers would help the
assembly run more efficiently.
The body was not convinced
that the expediency was worth
the cost to CSG.
"If we could get these things

for free, test it out, if that was a
possibility, then maybe it would
have been different," Summers
said.
Eral said this year also marks
the first of a new system of num-
bering the assemblies.
"It's the First Assembly
because it's the first assembly
under the new constitution,"
Eral said. "The previous year
was a transition year. So thiswas
an entire year operating under
the new constitution."
The Second Assembly will
be meeting for the first time
next Tuesday, and Eral said it's
important that they are asser-
tive.
"Student government some-
times doesn't have the best repu-
tation with students," Eral said.
"You just have to work through
that and do the work that you
know needs to be done and when
you do, it will show that you've
done a good job."
Looking at the year in review,
Eral said he will never forget his
time spent in the assembly.
"I'm going to miss my time
on the assembly and miss rep-
resenting students and being a
part of this organization every
Tuesday night," Eral said

Google + gathering
allows students to
discuss issues
By GIACOMO BOLOGNA
DailyNewsEditor
Students from five universi-
ties met with U.S. Rep. Hansen
Clarke (D-Mich) yesterday, but
nobody had to travel far in order
to talk.
Through an online video-
chat facilitated by Google+, a
handful of University students
met in the Central Student Gov-
ernment offices with students
from Wayne State University,
Eastern Michigan University,
Western Michigan University
and Michigan State University
for a question and answer ses-
sion with Clarke about a bill he
recently introduced on college
affordability.
"It's a great way ... to com-
municate to each other about
the importance of the issue of
repaying student loan debt,"
Clarke said. "That's going to
help borrowers, their families,
and also too this bill is going to
help out the parents who have
taken out loans to help educate
their children."
The bill, called the Student
Loan Forgiveness Act, would
allow students that fit a set of
criteria to opt into a loan repay-
ment plan where they would
pay 10 percent of their annual
income to pay off student loans,
and after 10 years of payments
the remainder of the debt
would be forgiven.

"The federal debt is impor-
tant, we need to address that,
but let's address that in a long
term responsible way," Clarke
said. "But the real debt that's
really burdening people is the
debt that folks have to pay on
every month."
LSA junior Sean Walser,
chair of the CSG External Rela-
tions Commission, participated
in the video-chat and said the
issue of student loans is critical
to most University students.
"It's important to me person-
ally as I'm one of many students
here at this University with
quite a lot of student debt,"
Walser said. "Talking about
issues like this are important
because that really energizes
students to get out there and
make a difference."
LSA junior Aditya Sathi, vice
speaker of CSG, also attended
the event and lauded the impor-
tance of having open dialogues
with legislators in order to pro-
mote student issues.
"It's not every day that you
get an opportunity to have
some face time with a United
States congressman," Sathi
said.
Sathi previously worked as
an intern in Clarke's Detroit
office through a University
class in the fall 2011 semes-
ter. Sathi said this bill was not
an attempt to drum up sup-
port from student voters, but
a sincere call for student loan
reform.
He added that in the past,
Clarke has been open to meet-
ing with students and even gave
a speech to the South Asian

Awareness Network after the
group requested to speak with
him.
"It wasn't a campaign trip,"
Sathi said. "He wasn't going to
get any votes out of a major-
ity of these students because
they're not even in his district
... he generally just wanted to
come speak."
Sathi said CSG has no formal
position on this bill, and he said
he is still reviewing it himself.
Nonetheless, he said he's pleased
it's being discussed at all.
"I'm excited that somebody's
trying to do something about
student debt," Sathi said.
Walser, who helped plan a
Student Association of Michi-
gan rally against rising tuition
in Lansing two weeks ago, said
this issue expands beyond the
state.
"I think the next step imme-
diately is taking this piece
of legislation and breaking it
down and reading it and taking
it to the Association of Big Ten
Students, the Student Associa-
tion of Michigan," Walser said.
"(It's important to start) a dia-
logue about not only this legis-
lation but in general what the
federal government can do."
Walser said regardless of the
bill being passed, it's important
to find a solution to rising stu-
dent debt.
"Addressing these issues
(are) important," Walser said.
"Whether we do it with a spe-
cific policy or a different kind
of policy, I think we definitely
need to approach student debt,
student loan issues ... and col-
lege affordability in general."

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