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Claiming that the group's membership policy discriminates against men, several students called for the admission of men as voting members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) last night...
During an RUS meeting devoted to their proposal, the students said that because the organization has grant-making power, its all-female membership policy is particularly wrong...
...opponents of male membership said the social aspects of RUS, which is Radcliffe College's student government, and the "warm and fuzzy" quality of the meetings would be destroyed if men were allowed to become members...
Moreover, while the feature focuses criticism on Peninsula, much of that criticism goes unchallenged. For instance, Wexler claims bias on the part of our RUS survey, because it was conducted during an RUS meeting, at which only 14 women were in attendance...
...imagine (against all statistical probability) that as many as five of those 14 women might have been reached had we randomly called on a different night. Wexler is still looking at 46 percent of the campus not knowing what RUS stands...