Word: rus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light of the controversy surrounding the events which culminated in the cancellation of the RUS women's dinner to have been held March 15 in Mather House dining hall, I feel it necessary to give a firsthand account of the situation. Hopefully, the H-R community, when presented with the correct facts, will understand what the Radcliffe Union of Students women's dinners are trying to do for the women of Radcliffe and not against the men of Harvard...
...Committee, whose activities have gathered momentum in recent months, grew out of a subcommittee of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). The subcommittee thought it would be more effective if it separated from RUS and formed an autonomous organization. Since February, the new, chairmanless committee has attempted to broaden its base of student support and educate the general public about women's studies...
Considerable debate within the committee centers around whether the concentration it advocates should be formed through a department, like Afro-American Studies, or a degree granting committee like History and Literature and Social Studies. Advocates of a department, like Ruth Colker '78, president of RUS and a committee member, believe a department would have more power and status then a degree granting committee. Stokes further ads that a department might be better able to maintain the broad perspective the committee hope for, since it would be an autonomous unit staffed by faculty members with appointments in the field...
...Mather Council proposed that RUS hold the dinners at one of the River houses on a rotating basis, instead of at the Radcliffe Quadrangle so that more women would be inclined to participate, Diana said...
...response to the dispute, Diana said, "It is clear that RUS is the exception, not the rule...