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...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...
Miss Kemeny is a member of the Senior Class Committee; Miss Kucharski was 1967 RGA President. Miss Van der Zeil was active in Phillips Brooks House, and Miss Wood sang with the University Choir...
...five groups later that morning, a trustee told the gathering, "It was mainly the trustees speaking," and proceeded to read a list of more or less specific criticisms of the constitution ranging from direct rejection of the clause stipulating student government autonomy (In the old RGA constitution any change in the constitution had to be approved by the College Council) to disapproval on the wording...