RUS Ignored By Radcliffe Policy Body

RUS, the new bond between Radcliffe administration and students, remained untested this week as the College Council, Radcliffe's policy-making body, held its first meeting without inviting RUS representatives.

Students Angered

Deborah A. Batts '69, president of RUS, said she felt "irritated" that she was not notified of the meeting, until after it was over.

She said that student representatives should have been invited to the first meeting "as a matter of ceremony," although she said that RUS did not expect an invitation to every meeting of the College Council.

Students will attend the second College Council meeting next week.

No Formal Agreement

RUS and the College Council never formally agreed on the number of meetings students would be invited to attend. Rather, they would be invited "from time to time," according to Genevieve H. Austin, Dean of Residence at Radcliffe.

RUS's goal is regular, non-voting attendance at College Council meetings. When students and administration officials could not agree on the extend of student participation last spring, the entire matter was left out of the RUS constitution. "A written compromise would have been hard to change later on," said Miss Batts.

Second Complaint

A second camplaint RUS members lodged against the administration this week was what Miss Batts called "an administrative faux pas." The old RGA rules and by-laws were included in the Radcliffe Redbook, which contains regulations for students.

RUS has not yet met to draft new regulations, and it has no by-laws.

Dean Austin, whose office compiled the book, said that the old rules were reprinted "to have something in print for the freshmen." She also said that RUS was in no way bound to them, and that the rules could be changed at any time.