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...with the 1977 merger of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, RUS's role as a student government disappeared. The organization's membership technically still includes all undergraduate women, but this year only 60 of those women attended the two meetings required to obtain voting rights...
Leaders of the organization say it is now designed to be a "foundation" organization, which supports other student groups addressing women's issues. They say RUS's primary impact comes through the grant money it distributes each year--ranging from $7,500 to $10,000 a year...
...Anyone who's participated in any event that has to do with women has benefited from RUS," says RUS Co-President Mia Bagneris '99. "If RUS didn't exist, a lot of things that go on on this campus wouldn...
...Harvard increases its own efforts to reach out to women students, not everyone agrees that RUS is still relevent on campus, especially because it duplicates the grant-giving responsibilities of the Undergraduate Council...
...ideal thing would be for RUS to merge with the U.C. into one student government," he says...