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...Radcliffe's prostituting herself," says Debbie Batts, a second-year students in the Law School and first president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS...
...MANY critics of the new merger plan oppose it because they feel Radcliffe has won no significant concessions from Harvard. Economic security is not enough, they say, to justify the destruction of Radcliffe as a separate institution. As Deborah Batts '68, former president of RUS, put it: "This is the last poker game Radcliffe will play with Harvard -if they don't drive a hard bargain now, they never will. I don't think Radcliffe girls will get anything out of this plan. But they will give up Radcliffe's flexibility and personableness for an impersonal bureaucracy...
...dissenting opinion, "Complete Co-education," (March 3). Mike Kinsley states that the RUS plan would "shield" women from two facts: the increased difficulty for women of being admitted into the University and the problems of living in a predominantly male social environment...
...HAVE we undergraduates been so far powerless to protect and pursue our interests? Because we haven't organized ourselves. Student councils, like the HUC and RUS, and student-Faculty committees like the present ones, have always depended on either Faculty or administration for their existence, and have had no real student constituency. The Administration and Faculty are highly organized, closely allied in many ways, and firmly in control of the students. Because students have never tried to deal with them except as individuals, in fragmented groups and factions, through dependent committees, or in ad hoc mass movements, they have invariably...
...last night, Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said that the issue of a women's center is "worth investigating. I'm sorry it had to start this way." Bunting said she offered the basement of Putnam House (the old financial aid building, located in the Radcliffe Yard) to RUS last September "for any activity," but RUS never took the initiative...