Word: rus
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After turning down four previous proposals for a constitution for the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Radcliffe College Council has approved a new RUS constitution, Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting announced yesterday...
...constitution, which still must be ratified in a student referendum later this month, grants RUS' long-standing demands for independent legislative power and "provides the working grounds for negotiating the rest of our requests," RUS President Deborah Batts '69 said last night...
Under the new charter, RUS legislation "in areas affecting student life" does not require Administration approval to go into effect. The College Council--of which Mrs. Bunting is a member--still retains, however, a provisional veto: if any member of the council objects to an RUS action, the dispute will be submitted to a Review Board. Five students and four administrators will be on this board...
...Trustees' paternalistic objections here--that students would be bored by much of the Council proceedings and that Cliffies shouldn't burden themselves with responsibility--are indefensible, particularly in the light of the Trustees' shifting positions. In February, the Trustees suggested that RUS modify its demand for four voting Council seats to a request for two non-voting seats. When RUS presented the plan in a new constitution, the Trustees rejected it. Trustee objections to RUS autonomy also suggest a deliberate minister-pretation of student goals. RUS has requested the same type of limited legislating power that many other committees...
...gains they have made so far. But the responsibility for creating a viable Radcliffe student government now rests with her and the Trustees. If they are sincere in their claims that they want a successful student government, they must now make the same kind of compromises that RUS has already made...