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...want to see what they've learned about the experience of women at Harvard," says Lisa Vogt '01-'02, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students. (RUS...
...need to tell that to Ma'rus, a dazed looking Madurese refugee cradling her 15-day-old baby beneath a stretched tarpaulin in Sampit. Her fellow refugees are squeezed into every bit of shade they can find within a few hundred meters of the regional government office building. None dare to stray any farther for fear of Dayak patrols conducting what they call "sweeping" exercises: they are searching for Madurese to murder. The hospital around the corner from the refugee camp is almost empty, a health official says, although hundreds of refugees need medical help. It isn't considered safe...
...baby was seven days old when Ma'rus fled into the jungle to escape Dayaks attacking her village, Serambut Besar. She stayed there for three days before gaining the courage to board a boat for a day's journey downriver to Sampit. Now her baby?it is a girl but as yet has no name, a domestic pleasure she can't yet contemplate?has a fever. Ma'rus doesn't have the strength to fight for a place on the government trucks bringing refugees to boats leaving for Java. This Tuesday morning, after five days in Sampit, she didn...
Vogt said RUS' first-time participation in the First-Year Activities Fair this year explains the increase in interest. RUS could not table at the fair before this year because it had not yet applied for official student group status...
Before the Radcliffe-Harvard merger in 1999, RUS was the student governing body of Radcliffe College. After the merger, RUS members took more than six months before applying for official Harvard student group status...