Word: rus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) will hold a women's dinner in the Mather House game room today after its plans for a dinner in the House dining hall were cancelled, Denise M. Moorehead '77, RUS vice president, said last week...
Ruth Colker '78, RUS president, said last week she is not satisfied with the compromise. RUS is "not just another organization; we are the representative government of the Radcliffe student body," she said...
...feeling North House instituted the policy of setting aside a dining hall for women periodically. From 1970-1976 the North House committee continued to sponsor and provide sherry and publicity for the dinners. This fall, North House voted its 'support' for the dinners but withheld its funds, so the RUS legislature allocated a part of its own budget and solicited funds from other House Committees to maintain the tradition. Five well-attended dinners have been held this year in Radcliffe dining halls. They have been warm, lively, animated gatherings of women who rarely have such an opportunity to be with...
...Committee for Women's Studies, we are writing to protest Dean Epps's ruling against the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) women's dining hall planned for Tuesday evening, March 15 at Mather House. Epps's action reveals a lack of understanding of the history and purpose of these dining halls and demonstrates a general insensitivity to the position and interests of women on this campus. That such an event was permitted at the Radcliffe Quad for six years but prohibited any closer to the River exemplifies Harvard's ambivalence toward its merged-non-merged sisters...
While the policy Epps cites is an undeniably sensible effort to protect the rights of undergraduate residents, it is being interpreted in an unnecessarily inflexible way. The policy should be seen as a guideline for what is desirable rather than as a rule. The RUS women's dinner clearly deserves to have an exception made for it, both because of its careful planning and the positive effect it can have. Closing the dining hall to male Mather residents for 45 minutes would cause little inconvenience. The closed class dinners, permitted, and commonly held at many Houses, involve more disruption...