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...true that the leadership is very tight," says Aldrich. "The people at the top are all people who live at the Quad and are all very close." She speaks of RUS as "it" or "them...
...certainly true that few Radcliffe students know what RUS is doing, and that the legislature gets little if any input from the students it is supposed to be representing. Few of the elections for House representatives were contested last spring, and in some cases last year's president, Janet Collins '75, actually had to recruit candidates. Given these circumstances, some women question how RUS can possible do anything more than serve the interests of the 15 to 20 women who are still active...
...president Margaret Hunt '76, say they are relying on the results of a long questionnaire they distributed last spring. About 20 per cent of all Radcliffe students returned the questionnaire; of these about half the women who were involved in athletics felt that facilities were inadequate. So one of RUS' eight committees this year deals with athletics, keeping an eye on the Department to make sure it is providing the equal facilities for women that Title IX requires...
...Norris and Hunt, who are both on crew, say that actually only a minor part of RUS' energy is going into athletics. More important these days is the housing issue--last month RUS co-sponsored with the Quad Committee a petition against the 1:1:2 housing plan and now it is putting together a position paper on housing. RUS is one of the 13 groups making up the new student Affirmative Action Task Force. There is also a committee studying ways to increase the number of courses related to women, and there are plans for a speakers series...
Aggravating this situation is the feeling of some RUS legislators, former and current, that the organizations is dominated by a small clique. One legislator who doesn't want to be identified, says she has not been to any meeting since the first one in the early fall where she felt "like a token...