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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...
Neither side won a clear-cut victory, but the keep-politics-out-of-RGA faction seemed to have a slight advantage as the war adjourned until next week's meeting...
...factions--about equal in strength and determination -- battled for about an hour on the general issue of political involvement, until Anne Michelich '66 moved that the RGA write to Tougaloo and the Mississippi State Legislature requesting information concerning the proposed charter revocation...