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Julia Rubin has been a Freshman representative to RUS, as well as its Vice-President. She lives in Dunster House...
...candidate for President of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), I believe that RUS should focus on three main goals for 1983-84. RUS should take a leadership role in creating a visible network of support for undergraduate women at Harvard/Radcliffe. Many student-run resources exist here for women-the Women's Center in Lehman Hall, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women, and the RESPONSE Rape Counseling Center, for example. Yet few undergraduate women are even aware of these small groups. As President of RUS, I would work to coordinate and publicize the resources available to women here...
...regular publication of Seventh Sister, a newspaper focusing on women at Harvard/Radcliffe, would be the first step toward an alliance of women's groups on campus. As a central source of activity on women's activity here, RUS would alert undergraduates to available activity and support relevant to their lives as women students...
...RUS will work actively with other student organizations on campus. I believe that any links RUS can forge with other special interest or political groups on campus will help to widen the forum of student activism here. It is extremely important for a group which represents the interest of women not to exist in a political vacuum...
Finally, I believe RUS should continue to act as mediator between students and administration on important issues like sexual harassment and women's studies. In the last year and a half, RUS leaders have made great progress in publicizing he issue of sexual harassment on campus. The university is now creating a specific grievance policy on the issue. As a visible and respected women's group on campus. RUS must continue to take on difficult but important issues like sexual harassment...