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...RECENT Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) presidential election provided an unusually clear example of the Radcliffe predicament. The two candidates ran on disparate platforms emphasizing the different roles RUS could possibly undertake. Former vice president Julia Rubin '84 wished to make the group a social and political focal point for all Radcliffe women, while winner Elizabeth Young '85 stressed the need to maintain RUS as a lobbying ground for feminist issues...
Certainly this latter role is crucial--especially as RUS is in the best position to undertake such a task--but the mistaken perception has grown up that the two aims are mutually exclusive. By centering so predominantly upon feminist issues. RUS and Radcliffe programs in general have attained a reputation for being too radical--an image reinforced by the fact that students strongly concerned with women's issues tend to need and use Radcliffe more often than do women pursuing other interests. Coupled with the general Harvard-induced apprehension of exclusively female activities, this image often serves as an excuse...
...RUS stands at a unique juncture of all Radcliffe undergraduate activities by automatically including all undergraduate women. Above and beyond simply lobbying, it could use this position to attack more directly and openly the perceptual problem that discourages so many of its "members" from active involvement--the natural tendency to undervalue women's activities because of Harvard's overwhelming emphasis on men. By recognizing that it need not replace Harvard in importance, perhaps Radcliffe, through RUS, can turn its attention better to complementing it. And with than reassurance, perhaps women at Radcliffe will no longer allow confidence in their...
Another speaker, Elizabeth Young '84, the newly elected president of the Radcliffe Union of Student (RUS), urged to crowd to support the work of the Women's Center and RUS. "We all deserve the right to study about the history of women, to security, to fair health care and not to be sexually harrassed," said young...
...RUS has acted and will continue to act as a special interest group--that of the women enrolled in Radcliffe College. Sharon...