Word: rus
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Administrators apparently will make no decision in the near future on last spring's recommendation by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) to phase-out the $5 term bill fee undergraduate women pay to the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS...
President Horner said yesterday there are no meetings of the Joint Policy Committee currently scheduled. When the committee has sufficient issues to necessitate a meeting, the RUS term-bill funding question will be considered, she said...
Last year RUS expanded its legislature in an effort to make the group more representative and more powerful. But making the changes on paper is not enough; the RUS leadership has not yet shown that it can reach the students it represents...
...RUS is allowed to charge undergraduate women five dollars on their term bills because the group supposedly watches out for women and presents programs for their benefit. But the poor response to the elections and last year's recommendation by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life to phase out the term bill fee gradually shows that many students are skeptical about the need for RUS and the group's ability to fulfill its goals...
Women have a stake in seeing that RUS operates effectively. Unless they write letters requesting refunds, all women contribute to the $12,000 RUS collects in term bill fees, and they have a right to expect some visible results. Nor can women afford to let their primary advocate stagnate in inaction and unresponsiveness...