Word: rus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing was decided, the controversy ending in a decision to draw up applications forms and institute a system for evaluating requests from groups. Before moving on to committee reports, however, Barbara A. Norris '77, RUS president, told the legislators to "think about the effect of our grants on women's affairs versus giving money to things that women want...
...RUS, Radcliffe's student government, is just beginning to rouse itself this fall after years of inactivity. Few Radcliffe women have ever known much about it, fewer have cared, and except for the fact that all Radcliffe students automatically pay $5 a year in RUS dues when they pay their term bills, the organization probably would have died long...
Instead, it has something like $11,000 to spend this year, with no constraints and virtually no one to account to. As stated in its constitution, RUS' purpose is to "represent, support and encourage the interest of undergraduate women." "Our greatest use is in doing things for women," says Norris; but RUS is having a hard time figuring out what women want, what to encourage...
...easy enough to discern what some individual women and groups of women want--money. Even when the organization was for all practical purposes not functioning a couple of years ago, someone was administering a loan-grant program with RUS money. This function continues--last year RUS gave 17 Radcliffe students money to work on projects related to women, including a study of Appalachian-women and observation of the U.N. Women's Year Conference in Mexico City last summer. This year's budget sets aside about $3000 for loans and grants. It also allows for $2800 in grants to groups...
Grace Mary Belfiore '79, who objected last year to the RUS abortion coverage, said yesterday she believes the UHS plan is a fair one. "The important thing to me is that I don't have to pay for any part of it," she said...