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Graduate student voters
support RSG secession
RSG: 69 percent government elections this week. student government.
Of the four divisions within "(It) could possibly better
of voters support a Rackham Graduate School, meet the needs of our students
only students in the Arts and than the current system does,"
separate graduate Humanities division did not sup- she said.
,nport secession, with 18 students She added that Law students
student gov't voting in favor and 52 students are often several years older
Due to faulty ballots, RSG
elections voided, rescheduled
By GIACOMO BOLOGNA
Daily StaffReporter
After sufferinga defeat in the
courtroom Tuesday night, the
Central Student Government
took a second blow early Friday
morning after the referendum
it fought to keep off the ballot
showed that a majority of stu-
dents who voted in Rackham
Student Government's election
support pursuing secession from
CSG.
RSG reported that 9.5percent
of Rackham students, approxi-
mately 800 students, voted in
the election, with 719 students
voting on the referendum. Of
those voters, 69 percent sup-
ported pursuing secession.
While 9.5 percent of students
equates to roughly 1 in 10 Rack-
ham students voting, only 6.4
percent of LSA students and 2.5
percent of Engineering students
voted in their school's student
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ter of intent for federal-state
cooperation in the creation
of an exchange, according to
Kurt Weiss, a spokesman from
the Michigan Department of
Technology, Management and
Budget, which helps the state
implement various projects and
initiatives.
Wednesday's decision by the
committee does not change his
commitment in the letter to the
federal government, Weiss said.
"We're going to continue
down the path of the partnership
exchange," he said.
The bill failed in committee
voting against the measure.
On Tuesday, with RSG's elec-
tion already a day underway,
RSG defended its ballot question
after CSG filed an injunction
against RSG on Nov. 21. The suit
addressed the ballot question
as well as additional issues, and
the injunction was separated,
meaning a second hearing will
take place in the near future to
address less-timely issues listed
on the injunction.
However, portions of the suit
arguing that the non-binding
question should be kept off the
ballot were dismissed by the CSJ
after a three-hour hearing.
While the ballot question was
submitted by RSG and secession
has been spearheaded by the
graduate student body, others
are also in favor of its secession.
Law student Liz Och, the
president of the Law School Stu-
dent Senate, said in an October
interview she favored looking
into creating an all-graduate
than undergraduate students,
some have families and very few
utilize on-campus housing.
"In terms of regular day-
to-day issues that are faced by
undergrads, we don't experience
a lot of those," she said.
Och, who is also pursuing
a master's degree through the
School of Natural Resources and
the Environment, said an all-
graduate student government
could foster more collaboration
between the graduate schools.
"It's not really about the
money;" Och said. "Obviously
the money is important, but I
think that it's more the sense
of community that should come
from having a smaller gradu-
ate student government that's
more focused around what (Law
School students) ... actually care
about."
In addition to gauging student
interest in secession, the elec-
tion also resulted in the selec-
tion of 12 RSG board members.
RSG: 69 percent
of voters support a
separate graduate
student gov't
By GIACOMO BOLOGNA
Daily StaffReporter
The Central Student Gov-
ernment released unofficial
results of its November elec-
tions a little more than 12 hours
after polls closed Wednesday at
11:59 p.m., but announced it will
reschedule the election for the
eight Rackham representative
seats after a faulty ballot only
allowed students to vote for one
candidate.
LSA senior Lukas Garske,
CSG student general counsel,
wrote in an e-mail to candi-
dates that CSG reopened the
ballot midday on Thurday and
Rackham students will have
an additional 48 hours to vote
on Rackham representatives
before polls close at 11:59 p.m.
on Saturday.
Garske also acknowledged
an error in the ballot for LSA
assembly representative, but
said it ultimately had no bear-
ing on the election's outcome.
"We also received reports
of an error in the LSA elec-
tions, which allowed students
to rank three candidates, while
only two seats were vacant on
the Assembly," Garske wrote.
"After conferring with ITS, it
was determined this error did
not affect the results."
Results from the LSA Student
Government and University of
Michigan Engineering Council
elections were released short-
ly after their respective polls
closed early Thursday morn-
ing, similar to the results of
last November's CSG elections.
CSG violated its own Compiled
Code, releasing its results after
the 12 p.m. Thursday deadline,
albeit only by six minutes.
Even the results of the
March elections, which saw
unprecedented turnout and
election complaints, were
released within the 12-hour
window their Compiled Code
requires.
In addition to the now-void
Rackham ballots, students
voted on 10 other open posi-
tions: assembly representative
positions from LSA, the College
of Engineering, the School of
Natural Resources, the College
of Architecture, the School of
Dentistry, the School of Public
Health, the School of Education
and a position on the Depart-
ment of Public Safety Oversight
Commission.
Though November CSG elec-
tions are meant to fill vacancies
in the assembly, not all seats
voted upon are vacant - some
were temporarily filled after
the resignation or dismissal of
a member and others never had
an attending holder.
Newly elected representa-
tives include: Daniel Glick-
Unterman, a College of
Architecture and Urban Plan-
ning junior; LSA junior Chris
Mays, Division of Public Safety
and Security Oversight Com-
mittee representative; seniors
Sriram Yarlagadda and Gavin
Lim and sophomore Michael
Hatty, representatives from
the College of Engineering;
sophomore Robert Dishell and
senior Brian Koziara, LSA rep-
resentatives; Lior Aljadeff, rep-
resentative from the School of
Dentistry; Emma Howland-
Bolton, representative from
the School of Education; and
Desiree McLain, representa-
tive from the School of Public
Health.
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partially because of Republican
resistance to the Affordable Care
Act and partially because state
Republicans used what is called
a "tie bar" to link the decision on
the exchange to the fate of anti-
abortion bills in the state Legis-
lature, said state Rep. Kate Segal
(D-Battle Creek), the House
Democratic floor leader.
Even if the committee passed
the health care exchange bill, the
bill would not be implemented if
two anti-abortion bills do not
pass state law due to the tie bar,
Segal said.
"Republicans refuse to
acknowledge the Affordable
Care Act is here to stay, and
they're putting politics in front
of what's best for Michigan,"
Segal said. "They further tied
politics to it by trying to make it
an anti-abortion bill that has no
consideration for the life and the
safety of the mother."
Some state Republicans met
the committee's decision on
Wednesday with disappointment
over the loss of an opportunity
to fully control an institution
imposed on them by the federal
government.
"It was my hope the commit-
tee would find that a state-run
exchange afforded us more con-
trol over the unacceptable over-
reach by the federal government
regarding the health care of
Michigan citizens," state Speak-
er of the House Jase Bolger (R-
Marshall) said in a statement.
He added: "After due dili-
gence, however, it is clear that
there were too many unan-
swered questions for the com-
mittee to feel comfortable with a
state-run exchange."
Michigan Attorney General
Bill Schuette said in a statement
on Wednesday that he was wor-
ried about the federal-state part-
nership, calling the exchange
"an extremely complex issue" in
which "many unanswered ques-
tions still remain."
"I have always had grave con-
cerns about establishing a health
care exchange," Schuette said in
the statement.
The bill rejected by the com-
mittee passed in the state Sen-
ate on Nov. 10. At the meeting
of the committee in Lansing on
Wednesday morning, it drew
praise and criticism from the
public over the course of an
hour-long open session.
One opponent of the exchange,
Isabelle Terry, a resident of
Rockford, Mich., wrote to the
committee to opine that the
Affordable Care Act "put us on
an horrifying track to financial
ruin."
Matthew Davis, an associate
professor of internal medicine at
the University's Medical School,
said Medicaid is an example of
a successful federal-state part-
nership, and indicates a similar
partnership on health care could
be effective.
Davis said a federal-state
partnership could help Uni-
versity students find their own
health insurance, a particularly
beneficial criterion for students
now as their parents' employers
are less likely to offer health care
benefits.
He expected Snyder and the
federal government to work out
the details of the exchanges over
the next -few months and the
deadline to implement them is
October 2013.
Weiss said Snyder was com-
mitted to the partnership
exchanges as the best possible
option for the state.
"I certainly think it's fair
to say that Governor Snyder
believes that the partnership
approach can work," he said.
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