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After an hour of debate, Lucy M. Candib '68, read a proposal to abolish all student government. "RGA is a farce. We Radcliffe students have no majority on Radcliffe's important decision-making bodies," she said. Mrs. Bunting called abolition of government "a worthwhile proposal."
Still, few in the Senate wanted to vote against it-or, by extension, for subversives. Why, declaimed Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, abolition of the board might even undermine the morale of the men in Viet Nam. Besides that, one of the members happens to come from Pekin, Ill., which, as...
The rest of the meeting consisted of a talk by Miss Lindsay with comments from other students on the state of student government at Radcliffe. There was some discussion of the fact that the fourth item on the agenda for tomorow's RGA meeting is the abolition of RGA.
What is the magic offered in this program? "Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of creed, freedom of demonstration, genuine land reform, and abolition of U.S.-built concentration camps." The same program, presumably, as those of Communist regimes the world over.
Last winter the Federation leaders refined the vague consensus of the February meeting into three specific requests: a pay increase that would have meant $800 a year more to most teaching fellows; the abolition of the pay differential Harvard maintains between teaching fellows who have completed residence requirements for their...