Word: rus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council also recommended a number of specific solutions. It suggested that RUS elect some officers to work on the constitution, and that the students and Trustees hold a conference to discuss the problems...
AFTER conference, held in late February, agreement seemed near Deborah Batts '69, RUS president, summed up the students' mood when she said, "We are for cooperation, not confrontation." The Trustees, too, seemed eager for a compromise solution...
...constitution that RUS offered in March was the result of this conference, and represented a major shift in RUS' aims. Instead of complete autonomy, RUS only asked for a joint student-administrative committee to review college legislation. Instead of the four voting seats it had originally sought on the Council, it wanted only two non-voting seats. RUS had cleaned up many of the loose parts of the constitution, making it more like "a realistic contract between two parties," one Trustee said...
...Trustees met to consider the latest constitution, hopes once more were high that RUS might finally become legitimate. First there was a victory--the Council approved the joint committee; then a minor setback--the Council found some technical problems; then a real blow--the Council decided not to include student representatives...
This stand was particularly frustrating to Cliffies since it ignored the RUS' whole purpose. "We don't care what students they have on the Council--they can pick them at random if they want--as long as they guarantee us that someone will be there," one sophomore said. Miss Batts added that "we don't want invitations dependent on the good will of the Administration. We want to be a regular part of the structure...