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...says the imminent appearance of Harvard's first centralized and funded student government justifies crippling RUS, so long the only voice of women undergraduates. But student government is in great confusion and students are unsure what shape, if any, the new government will take. It may well become the menagerie of megalomaniacs that its pathetic predecessor was. The fall, then, may be one of the worst times in recent memory to ask students to evaluate the need for RUS, especially since recently arrived freshmen are not yet aware of RUS' record...
WORD FROM University Hall and Radcliffe these days indicates the University may soon be holding a referendum on whether to continue funding the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). Leaders of RUS have charged that University Hall is pushing for the referendum simply because RUS bothers them, because it raises issues the College doesn't want to deal with. The charge seems valid...
...year history, RUS has had a rather impressive record of lobbying the College for action on issues like rape security, tenuring women, and sexual harassment. On those issues, its voice has often been alone. If RUS at times seems overly vocal, that tactic is only appropriate, since these are the very issues on which the University is most secretive. For example, even when women are upheld in charging professors with-sexual harassment, the College has no official policy of telling the student involved what punitive steps, if any, it has taken. And there are many more rapes on campus than...
...that irks University Hall, so it's not surprising College officials are pushing the referendum. Certainly the timing and motives of Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 seem suspect. RUS is, after all, a Radcliffe organization over which he has no responsibility...
...Harvard is forgetting another tested political adage. It's a lot easier politically not to give than to take away. Harvard's spurning of the third world center request wasn't killing a sacred cow so much as refusing to establish a new one. RUS and the Clearinghouse, on the other hand, are traditions, remnants of an activist era still remembered fondly. The University obviously feels anxious to do away with such nettlesome relics. But in picking a fight with Harvard's women, instead of being satisfied with the status quo, it may be getting into its own Vietnam...