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...RGA yesterday defeated a motion to liberalize sophomore rules...
...uncertain whether the motion will come to a vote today, and the outcome of such a vote is equally foggy. Although RGA representatives generally supported the motion last spring, some observers feel that Mrs. Bunting's report may have changed some votes...
Gilman House students felt so strongly that Monday they elected June M. Green gold '66 to vote for the liberalization motion at the RGA meeting. In the past, Gilman has had no RGA representative...
There are times when one wonders about the meaning of democracy in a university. It once seemed as if RGA were evolving into a body by which students could influence the environment in which they live instead of passively waiting to be controlled by the administration. In approving the changes in junior and senior rules RGA showed some vitality; in its second thoughts about sophomore rules it showed more, since these doubts originated with the students themselves and not with President Bunting. In all of this, and in other ways, RGA gave an impression of some independence and a strong...
...taken the power of making rules away from the student. In making her announcement of investigation and punishment of overnight signouts President Bunting may have been attempting to give moral guidelines to students. Unfortunately, her unilateral decision to take such a step without first submitting her idea to RGA is a serious misconception of the idea of self-government, and will merely help to increase the feeling of alienations which afflicts so many students because of their inability to come to grips with the real world either inside their academic studies or by regulating their own lives. Samuel R. Friedman...