Word: rus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUS constitution differs on two vital points from its RGA predecessor: it calls for student autonomy in making amendments and student representation on the College Council. Though it is not the Trustees but the Council, at its meeting next Monday, that will have the final say on the constitution, all the Council members also sit on the Board of Trustees and the opinions expressed at the Board meeting are bound to carry weight...
TODAY'S meeting, however, is a beginning. It is a start towards what Debbie Batts, RUS President, sees as responsible cooperation between the administration and students on problems of concern to both. This is how the Trustees should see it, too; Miss Batts' is not an unreasonable vision. It is definitely not an attempt by a group of power-hungry Miss Mitties to take over the College, as Miss Batts and her very sober co-officers have stressed over and over again...
There is a certain urgency to the situation. RUS has a broad mandate to stay firm on its essential demands. Any compromise on these would be a betrayal. But that does not rule out considerable dialogue on what the demands mean and how best to achieve them. The essential ingredient is a willingness on the part of administration and Trustees to give and take on the two really important issues as well as the problem of student seating on administration committees. On the seating question, progress is being made, since several college and Trustee committees are actively seeking student members...
...despite the fact that it was not Stalin's grim regime but Khrushchev's that punished Wynne. Though he was sometimes beaten, the primary torture was calculated degradation aimed at reducing Wynne to a broken, pliable animal. He never had adequate clothes or blankets for the harsh Rus sian winters. He was forced to live amid the stench of his own excrement...
...true, but the atmosphere that morning--first in the Colloquium room and then in all but one of the five trustee-administration-student discussion groups--was sweet reason and affability. The conference was programmed as a discussion of the "inconsistencies" the Radcliffe College Council detected in the RUS constitution, but very little time was actually spent in going over specific clauses. The meeting was rather an opportunity for each side to present his case, and more important, for each to convince the other of his own reasonableness and openmindedness...