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Anastasia Kucharski '68, president of RGA, said late last night that RUA's failure to achieve a majority may lead to a run-off between RUA and RUS. RGA will discuss the possibility at its meeting tomorrow...
...proposed RUA Council would have 25 to 30 members and not 11, as reported in yesterday's Crimson. Furthermore, both the RGA Constitution and the RUA Constitution allows all Radcliffe undergraduates a vote on major issues...
Radcliffe student government has never had a reputation as a vital and interesting body. But this was as true of RGA's precursors as it is of RGA. It cannot be argued that student apathy is purely due to defects in RGA's constitution. A far more likely explanation is that student government is not of overriding interest to most students. This is not necessarily a bad thing. One cannot blame students for feeling that it is more valuable to spend their time and thoughts on academic and curricular activities. The role of student government then becomes to ensure that...
...student government must take care of the chores most students do not want to bother with. It must also provide a way in which intelligent discussion and effective action can be taken by large numbers of students on important issues. The RGA, though by no means perfect, fulfills these requirements better than any of the other proposals...
...does have certain advantages over RGA. Its bi-cameral structure makes it easier for students who are interested in the day-to-day government to bring forward ideas and proposals on specific issues and gives every student a voice in all major decisions. We urge that RGA consider revising its constitution to take advantage of this possibility...