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...body unanimously voted to send a letter to all freshmen women, as well as upperclass women in South and Kirkland Houses (which both lack one representative), inviting them to attend the next RUS meeting, when they may be appointed as official delegates...
With its first meeting coming up October 23, Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) is still missing eight freshmen and two upperclass representatives--the result of largely uncontested elections in the Houses...
...final decision of how to fill the vacancies rests with the legislature. Levin said she will recommend special elections for the freshman seats and appointments for the upperclass seats when RUS convenes on October...
Finally, I think it is especially important to have the upperclass advisers be concentrators in the field of interest of freshmen assigned to them. When I was a freshman, most of my peers weren't sure what careers they wanted to pursue, if any. Many of them have changed their minds several times since, and some of them still don't know. Freshmen should certainly be encouraged to resolve these questions immediately and with finality...
...reference to upperclass adviser Arthur C. Kyrianzis '80 as "big brothers" has illuminated two long-standing errors in the informal programs once run by three undergraduate houses that had freshmen. First, we naively referred to our programs directly as "Big Sibling" programs, rather than cleverly divising a more formal cover title like "Students Helping Students." Second, we explicitly recognized that advisers might be of either sex by calling them "big brothers and sisters." Our mistakes and obvious lack of professionalism have now been made clear...