Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to make students aware of the educational and social issues which affect them, in the hope that such concern will lead to creative action. The National Student Congress each summer serves the NSA's educational purposes by providing a forum for student opinion on important issues which face the student community--from in loco parentis and the House Committee on Un-American Activities to civil rights, the aims of education, and nuclear testing. Throughout the year, the national and regional NSA bodies conduct conferences and seminars on such issues as academic freedom, neo-colonialism, and race relations in north...
...unfortunate that those who oppose Harvard's membership in the NSA base their opposition on NSA's concern with "political questions not relevant to student government." The argument is spurious in the first place because political questions may affect students as well as any other group in society. As Marc J. Roberts '64, chairman of the National Executive Committee of the NSA, has explained, "The purpose of the NSA is not to dabble in politics, but to get students to think and act about issues which affect them." Policies such as the NSA's call for the abolition...
...should be--trying to overcome. In comparison to students in other countries, American students have shown little concern for social and political issues. Such an attitude can hardly be viewed as healthy for the future development of American democracy. Rather than narrow the range of issues which affect "students in their role as students," the NSA should further the discussion of political questions...
...international affairs," Hughes said, "two-thirds of the votes in the Senate can be changed back and forth by public pressure." President Kennedy would "put himself in the catalogue of mediocre Presidents" if he let Senate opposition affect his test-ban policy, he added...
...present, although juniors and seniors may sign out until any hour, they must return by the hour of their sign-out or incur a penalty. The change will not affect freshmen and sophomores, who will still have to get back by the time to which they have signed...