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Last Friday an article on the upcoming RUS Student/Trustee Conference appeared in the Crimson. Several students feel that certain points in that article were misleading and I am therefore using this opportunity to clarify them...
...original RUS Constitution has not been discarded in favor of a new Constitution. The RUS officers have not drawn up a new draft nor have they eliminated any provisions of the original Constitution. One of the purposes of this Conference is to discuss the original Constitution and to make any necessary amendments to it as a result of suggestions proffered by this Conference. This Friday and Saturday will afford students the opportunity to explain the purported Constitutional "inconsistencies," many of which are of a stylistic rather than of a substantive nature, to the Trustees and Administration directly. Debbie Batts RUS...
...next morning the new RUS legislature, members of the Administration, and Trustees will discuss the rejected constitution...
Miss Batts stressed that she and other RUS officers hoped students would show "an active interest in planning the new constitution to impress the Trustees with the amount of student involvement in college policy." Such interest would legitimize RUS demands for a voice at Council meetings, she said...
...Once the RUS constitution is ratified by the College Council, the Union will be completely autonomous, according to present proposals. Under the constitution of the RGA, which RUS replaces, any changes have to be approved by the Council...