Word: rus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissenting opinion, "Complete Co-education," (March 3). Mike Kinsley states that the RUS plan would "shield" women from two facts: the increased difficulty for women of being admitted into the University and the problems of living in a predominantly male social environment...
...HAVE we undergraduates been so far powerless to protect and pursue our interests? Because we haven't organized ourselves. Student councils, like the HUC and RUS, and student-Faculty committees like the present ones, have always depended on either Faculty or administration for their existence, and have had no real student constituency. The Administration and Faculty are highly organized, closely allied in many ways, and firmly in control of the students. Because students have never tried to deal with them except as individuals, in fragmented groups and factions, through dependent committees, or in ad hoc mass movements, they have invariably...
...last night, Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said that the issue of a women's center is "worth investigating. I'm sorry it had to start this way." Bunting said she offered the basement of Putnam House (the old financial aid building, located in the Radcliffe Yard) to RUS last September "for any activity," but RUS never took the initiative...
...SECOND argument in favor of the RUS coed plan is that the higher ratios of men to women necessary for complete coeducation inflict too great a hardship on the women involved. Surely no one would deny that a 1-1 or 2-1 ratio is preferable for all concerned-and especially the women-to higher ratios. But how much preferred is it? Is the difference between 2-1 and 4-1 for the people in coed Houses greater than the difference between 4-1 and 1-0 for those stuck in Houses which can't go coed in order...
...poll RUS uses to justify its demands is, like most polls in House dining rooms, unlikely to win prizes for efficiency. The categories are confusing, results of men at Radcliffe were mixed with those of women, and only 55 per cent responded. Further, the results are meaningless: Of course women would prefer a 2-1 ratio in the current coed Houses. Not only would this leave unchanged their chances of moving to a Harvard House while achieving a preferable ratio wherever they ended up, but it would also vastly improve their chances of moving to the more desirable Houses such...