Word: rga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will change the climate of indifference. After all, they argue, RUS is the product of meetings of the Radcliffe Government Association that were long, heated, and tumultuous--adjectives rarely applied to Radcliffe student government. And the meetings were well-attended, probably better attended than any in the life of RGA (which RUS is designed to replace...
...though only 47 per cent of the College turned out to vote in the final elections for the new student government, no one denies that RUS is different. When students did bother to think about RGA it was with very little respect. They looked on it as a glorified social committee, which met only to hear reports on such inherently dull topics as NSA conventions, or to coordinate freshman week, or to plan junior parents' weekend...
...administration was more sanguine about RGA's usefulness-until this past semester. It had felt that RGA was an effective channel for transmitting messages to the students community, for sending up trial balloons on various proposals, and, generally for keeping in touch with student opinion. Then, with the hunger strike last spring over non-Radcliffe housing rules, with the dispute over the fourth House last semester, and finally, with the Dow incident, even those close to Mrs. Bunting had to admit that she and the administration were out of touch, despite RGA...
Once the RUS constitution is ratified by the College Council, the Union will be completely autonomous, according to present proposals. Under the constitution of the RGA, which RUS replaces, any changes have to be approved by the Council...
...officers and the old RGA executive committee will hold a closed joint meeting after exams to discuss the drafting of a new RUS constitution. The College Council rejected the constitution in its present form because of certain "internal inconsistencies." Under the RGA constitution, any amendment or change in the constitution must be ratified by the College Council...