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This fall, the issue of why women should contribute $5 each year to the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) came under discussion by Radcliffe undergraduates. Many women wanted to know more a about RUS and the actual relevance it has for undergraduate women. RUS has the potential to be many different things. It can be a special interest group with a small core of participating members and the goal of working on only two or three issues a year, or it could be a school-wide organization which extends into all aspects of undergraduate life and tries to improve...
...every Radcliffe undergraduate shares the same political views but each of us does share a common wish to make her time at Harvard-Radcliffe a very productive one. That means not only academics but also future plans and goals. The help undergraduate women accomplish these goals, RUS needs a more active constituency. This could best be achieved by working towards one representative to 50 undergraduate women ratio in all the houses as well as in the yard...
...RUS must also express an interest in the less political aspects of undergraduate life. The all female band which was formed this winter is an example of that. Likewise, the business series which runs through February is intended to help undergraduates plan of the future and overcome any gender-based obstacles...
...Harvard/Radcliffe to the back seat. These are crucial issues and to forget that would be regressing. The efforts which are currently being made must be continued and increased. But with four or five active members only a finite amount of work can be done. With 2 500 undergraduate women, RUS needs at least 25 and hopefully as many as 50 representatives which would allow us not only to continue in those areas in which we are currently working, but also to expand our efforts...
...believe that these goals are realistic and it is what I would dedicate myself to as president of RUS...