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...RUS, Radcliffe's student government, is just beginning to rouse itself this fall after years of inactivity. Few Radcliffe women have ever known much about it, fewer have cared, and except for the fact that all Radcliffe students automatically pay $5 a year in RUS dues when they pay their term bills, the organization probably would have died long...
Instead, it has something like $11,000 to spend this year, with no constraints and virtually no one to account to. As stated in its constitution, RUS' purpose is to "represent, support and encourage the interest of undergraduate women." "Our greatest use is in doing things for women," says Norris; but RUS is having a hard time figuring out what women want, what to encourage...
...easy enough to discern what some individual women and groups of women want--money. Even when the organization was for all practical purposes not functioning a couple of years ago, someone was administering a loan-grant program with RUS money. This function continues--last year RUS gave 17 Radcliffe students money to work on projects related to women, including a study of Appalachian-women and observation of the U.N. Women's Year Conference in Mexico City last summer. This year's budget sets aside about $3000 for loans and grants. It also allows for $2800 in grants to groups...
...RUS just divvies up money," says one former legislator who resigned after having gone to one meeting and who says she has heard nothing from the organization since...
...RUS officers insist the groups is doing more than just handing out money to other groups. "This year we set aside a smaller proportion of our money for loans and grants," Norris says, "We felt that giving out grants was good, but we also felt that RUS was not doing enough for the majority of women...