Word: rus
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Student groups expressed impatience with this bureaucracy in at least one meeting this spring when members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and other groups arrived at the council to urge that the council censure the Pi Eta Club, a men's social group, for an allegedly sexist news-letter, RUS members were frustrated at the council's procedures, which made them wait until the end of the meeting to discuss their proposal, failed to make it on the docketed agenda. Despite the criticism, council members say these procedures are a prerequisite for credibility with administrators. "The procedures...
Rosovsky's refusal to detail the action taken in the Dominguez case understandably provoked strong protest from sections of campus. The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) strongly condemned the University's response as inadequate while several graduate and undergraduate students chose to boycott a class taught by Dominguez to protest the University's handling of the case. "Because there is no public statement (on the case), the University makes taking his course a political act," one student said at the time...
...survey seemed to spark the Faculty into action at last. Despite a year-long review of harassment grievance procedures last year that ended with no proposals for change, the Faculty Council, the Faculty's executive steering committee, reopened its discussions on the issue. After hearing the views of RUS officials and several experts on harassment, the Council debated a sweeping proposal, to establish a general harassment policy to address conflicts arising on the basis of gender, race, religious, sexual orientation or other factors. The plan stressed informal channels to handle complaints, but also called for the creation of a central...
...content with the pace of change, students who only spend four years at Harvard are somewhat more impatient. Toba E. Spitzer '85, a student member of the Faculty Committee on Women's Studies, this year said it was not "an activist body" and that the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) started a student committee of women's studies this year in response...
...review of the final clubs' discriminatory practices prompted the committee to consider organizations such as the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and the Black Student Association, both of which are technically exclusive[emphasis added...