Word: rus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Student activism is an inability to sit still, a lack of complacency and a willingness to do something about it," says Ann Pellegrini '86, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). Established in 1969, RUS provides "financial and spiritual guidance" for woman in the Harvard community by supporting woman's activities and groups, she says...
According to Pellegrini, one of the biggest problems RUS faces is simply making people realize that Radcliffe exists and that it's worthy of their attention. "RUS functions as a gadfly to Harvard's horse. We do things because no one else will," Pellegrini adds...
...problems Pellegrini and RUS must constantly fight is a "feminist-lesbian" stereotype, Pellegrini says. RUS is open to all woman in the Harvard community, but only the more liberal groups tend to associate with it. This places the union in a classic Catch-22 situation which Pellegrini has had difficulty overcoming...
...Unlike RUS, which constantly contends with a leftist stereotype, the Conservative Club savors its near monopoly as the voice of the right...
...While RUS supports the right to disassociation, Pellegrini says she does not believe that putting particular professors in the public spotlight is the best way to free students from having to associate with certain professors...