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Freshman Chorus; Crimson; Junior Parents Weekend House Chairman; RGA Secretary...
...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...
...guiding idea behind RGA's successor was a student government responsive to student needs. Whether or not RUS can achieve a degree of responsiveness will be the crucial test of its success or failure...
...going to be able to outvote the trustees. Second (and this is probably the most important point), there is no one student Opinion just as there is no one Radcliffe Girl. Many Cliffies feel that RUS is even less responsive to the needs of all the students than RGA, and even more the stomping ground of the few "student government types." An impressive group has argued that no government may, in fact, be the best solution. Under this non-system a crisis would call forth a group of people most interested in and informed on the issues at hand...