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...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) allows men to participate in discussions and receive grant money, but it does not allow men to vote--and with good reason. While the input men provide is valuable and their attendance at meetings is welcomed, the people who ultimately have power over the decisions should be the students with the greatest stake in the outcome...
Advocates say the discrimination is unacceptable particularly because RUS has grant-making power...
...charge by students who support male suffrage is that RUS is discriminatory...
...Form a club and meet in a dorm, but don't have $14,000 to come and eat cookies," said pro-suffrage activist E. Michelle Drake '97, in reference to the RUS budget. "I don't understand why grant-giving should be tied to social considerations...
Opponents of the change say the admittance of men as voting members would change RUS for the worse. "There are a lot of women who feel there is a necessity to have a strictly women's space," says RUS Co-President Megan E. Lewis...