Word: rus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUS asked for 72 hours a week on the grounds that Harvard had that amount. However, Harvard parietals, which run 2 p.m. midnight Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. 1 a.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. midnight Sunday, total 77 hours a week...
...What RUS seems to need even less, though, is bad faith--on the part of its members, students and the administration...
Last month, for example, when RUS was not invited to the first College Council meeting, most students considered it an omen of RUS's doom. The meeting was held before classes started in September, and Mrs. Bunting explained that RUS representatives had not been invited because students were not yet back in Cambridge. While no one should ignore the possibility of subtler reasons, no one except the College Council will ever be able to do better than guess at them. RUS members were "irritated, but not angry" at not being invited. Mrs. Bunting argued that the tension came from...
Some students still say that RUS should have been angry anyway, and that its difficulties are rooted in its conciliatory "politeness" toward the administration. They contend that a tougher stand on the part of students would break the administration's resistance to student demands...
...spite of what these students may hope, however, RUS will never replace the College administration, nor does it want to. "The College Council doesn't want to be dictated to," said Debbie Batts, "and we really don't want to dictate. It's very hard to impress people with the more subtle things we're trying...