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...RGA took a step forward last week when it overwhelmingly passed a proposal which allows Cliffies to skip dinner in the dormitory on May 14 in order to donate the money saved to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In the past RGA has avoided taking stands on questions outside of the Radcliffe community, but its approval of the fast may indicate a new intention to speak out on local or national problems which are particularly important to students. In addition, the move may encourage individual students to take action on their...
Members of the RGA Legislature yesterday passed overwhelmingly a proposal to allow Cliffies committed to the cause to abstain from eating dinner in the dormitories on May 14 and to donate the money saved to the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
While the issue of the fast was partially related to last week's heated debate about whether RGA should take stands on political issues, the fast seemed to be much less controversial than the larger issue of political involvement. Many of last week's "isolationists" supported the fast, and the final vote on the motion was 23 to 6, with two abstentions. Most of the objections concerned administrative problems...
...debate on political stands also continued this week--for the third consecutive meeting--but on a far more harmonious level than in the past. Both isolationists and activists seemed to be heading towards a general consensus that RGA should consider specific issues as they arise, but should take no general stand on political involvement...
Caroline G. Balderston '66 urged that RGA pass a resolution protesting a Mississippi bill to revoke the charter of Tougaloo, a predominantly Negro college long active in civil rights. "Integration is a moral, not a political, issue," she said...