Word: rga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this fall, the slowly-emerging realities of RUS may come as a shock to some Cliffies, especially when all they can remember of student government is their high school student council, which they probably never served, and RGA, which never won any claims to student support...
...second camplaint RUS members lodged against the administration this week was what Miss Batts called "an administrative faux pas." The old RGA rules and by-laws were included in the Radcliffe Redbook, which contains regulations for students...
...specific issues at stake have not changed much since the fight began last December. What has changed is the style in which each side has conducted negotiations. RUS, originally conceived as a militant replacement for RGA, has shown an increasing willingness to compromise and cooperate with the Administration. The Trustees, while professing sympathy with the students' cause, have chalked up a record of action that makes their claims sound hollow...
...problems began last fall. After a long campaign aimed at making the old Radcliffe Government Association more aggressive, Cliffies finally voted late in November to disband RGA. A few weeks later, they faced a choice: they could vote for RUS, for rival RUA, or for scrapping student government altogether. The elections committee wisely suspended the rule requiring half the student body to vote in order to make the election valid. Forty-three per cent of the Cliffies voted...
...constitution differs on two vital points from its RGA predecessor: it calls for student autonomy in making amendments and student representation on the College Council. Though it is not the Trustees but the Council, at its meeting next Monday, that will have the final say on the constitution, all the Council members also sit on the Board of Trustees and the opinions expressed at the Board meeting are bound to carry weight...