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The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) voted this week to eliminate overrepresentation of Quad Houses in its legislature by revising its election procedure.
RUS voted to change its bylaws to provide for the election of one representative for each 50 women in every House and in the freshman class, Susan Comstock '78, president of RUS, said Tuesday.
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The Quad Houses currently have three legislators each, while the River Houses have two, and the freshmen six.
The current proportions were set up when there were fewer women undergraduates, and relatively more of them lived at the Quad than the River Houses, she added.
An RUS constitutional committee decided to recommend the change because current conditions have made the Quad overrepresented and freshmen do not have enough voice relative to their class size, Kristin Stred '80, a Leverett House legislator and a member of the committee, said yesterday.
She added the new proportional representation may not reduce the actual number of Quad legislators since a preliminary estimate of the numbers involved show that all the Houses will probably have three representatives under the new system, increasing the absolute size of RUS from about 30 to 38 people.
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