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When Harvard University and Radcliffe College merge on Oct. 1, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) will become a student government with nothing to govern...
Until now, that was RUS' job, which means the 31-year-old union now faces an existential crisis about its role in a post-Radcliffe world...
...RUS' main funding source, a $5 term bill charge to all female undergraduates, will disappear after this year. With the merger, the student government of the formerly all-female college must open its voting ranks...
...student activities that RUS funds, from Education 4 Action to the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV), the switch means the loss of access to a quick and frequently generous source of funds...
...final deal about to be signed is silent on many of the issues that most closely affect undergraduates. There is no assurance that RUS will continue, as many students and alumnae had hoped, and administrators and lawyers will continue to debate the future of many of Radcliffe's prizes and fellowships in the coming months...