Word: rus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council's objections to RUS constitutions have by now become familiar. The same issues--RUS "autonomy," student representation on the Council, and the actual wording of the constitution--that students and administrators have churned up for four months emerged again at this meeting...
...consistent rhetoric is deceptive. Although the term and focus of the argument have remained the same, each side has continually shifted its position in the last four months. It's hard to know where RUS and the Council are today without also knowing how they got there...
...problems began last fall. After a long campaign aimed at making the old Radcliffe Government Association more aggressive, Cliffies finally voted late in November to disband RGA. A few weeks later, they faced a choice: they could vote for RUS, for rival RUA, or for scrapping student government altogether. The elections committee wisely suspended the rule requiring half the student body to vote in order to make the election valid. Forty-three per cent of the Cliffies voted, and RUS...
Since then, it's been an uphill fight for RUS. Its first attempt at constitution-making provided some disappointments, but no real surprises. Two days after the election, Mrs. Bunting had said that the RUS platform calling for complete RUS "autonomy"--specifically, the power to change its own rules without administration approval--would probably be rejected by the Council because it was "inconsistent with College regulations." On January 8, she announced that the Council had rejected the constitution, because it was "inconsistent with College regulations...
There were other problems. Mrs. Bunting said that the Council objected to "vagueness and internal contradictions" in the constitution, citing some fifteen clauses that the Council felt needed further clarification. RUS had also asked for permanent voting student representation on the Council. Mrs. Bunting said this too was impossible because College rules said that only Radcliffe Trustees could be permanent voting members of the Council...