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"We're looking to increase graduate student ... voice on campus and campus matters." Despite the disagreement, the two parties agree on one thing - they want to increase funding for school and college student gov- ernments. "We like what (school specific student governments) do, they do great things in representing the students of their home school," he said. "They're justified in being angry that their fee has been stag- nant." El-Kilani said he plans to reach out to each student government and ask them if they are interest- ed in raising the student fee and to see if raising student fee is bet- ter than secession, an avenue he plans to pursue if he gets the sup- port of students and their respec- tive student governments. However, El-Kilani said he can't make any promises about raising the student fee. CSG, under its former name of the Michigan Student Assem- bly, passed a resolution in 2010 to increase funding for school and college governments, but the Uni- versity administration rejected the proposal, El-Kilani said. CSG collects $7.19 from stu- dents with $1 of the fee going to the childcare fund. Each stu- dent also pays $1.50 to his or her respective school's student gov- ernment. El-Kilani added a proposal to raise the student fee by any amount could easily be reject- ed by the University's Board of Regents - especially considering that other groups, such as Build- ing a Better Michigan, that are interested in increasing the stu- dent fee. El-Kilani said he wouldn't sup- port reappropriating CSG money to individual student govern- ments. "I think the core issue is money," He said. "That's clearly what it's all about - to do more of the things they do, more of the great things that they do. Obvi- ously CSG likes havingthe money to help students as well in a more centralized manner. So how do you balance that out?" Though Benson said additional funding would be nice, he said it wouldn't address the need for a strong, unified voice for gradu- ate students and said "throwing a dollar at us" won't keep RSG from pursuing secession. "I don't feel comfortable say- ing, 'We'll trade; if you give us a dollar, we'll stop doing what we're doing,"' he said. "The key factor is the representation, the voice on campus." He added that in the prelimi- nary plan developed by RSG, the total student fee for graduate students would actually decrease from $8.69 to a flat $8. Benson emphasized the vast differences between the graduate student experience and under- graduate experience to explain the importance of separate repre- sentation. He said the age gap, as well as the increased likelihood of graduate students having chil- dren, are just two ways the groups differ. Benson also noted that CSG spent a significant amount of time on Medical Amnesty, an issue graduate students have virtually no interest in, Benson said. Nevertheless, Benson said he would like to see open communi- cation and collaboration between RSG and CSG. While discussion over seces- sion has been heating up over the past few months, the idea itself isn't new -graduate students first attempted secession 38 years ago. In 1974 graduate student seces- sion was considered and again in 1997 and in both cases constitu- tions for the all-graduate student governments were drafted. A 1997 letter from RSG execu- tive board members to the Vice President for Student Affairs cited overwhelming support of student voters from the Law School, the Medical School, the Rackham Graduate School and the School of Social Work. "In Referenda (sic) conducted by each student government in their respective schools, an aver- age of 95% of graduate student voters supported the proposed change," the co-presidents of RSG wrote. Though it's.unclear how many students voted, secession failed despite the high percentage of support, though Benson said the results the results of the Rackham vote important. "Is 69 percent of the 10 percent meaningful? Yes," Benson said, adding that "one int10 students in the graduate school voted - that's pretty pathetic." El-Kilani disagreed. "It's always going to be a slightly skewed sample," he said. "People who are voting in RSG elections tend to be people who have friends running for RSG or particularly are interested in RSG." FOLLOW THE DAILY ON TWITTER @michigandaily @michdailynews @theblockm @michdailyarts @michdailyoped U A