Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week members of the Student Council stored their overnight suitcases, tucked away cocktail glasses and other convention-going paraphernalia, and announced their withdrawal from the National Student Association...
...longer would they be obliged to undertake the annual pilgrimage to the nation's capital to meet formally and informally with students from colleges throughout the country. Harvard's problems, Marc Leland, President of the Council, explained, are of a "different" nature from those on other college campuses...
When Leland, along with Tim Zagat, the other Council delegate to the NSA convention, submitted a report on the conference to the Student Council, they listed three major criticisms of the organization: 1.) the representatives do not represent the views of their student bodies and are therefore not qualified to vote on their behalf on national or political issues; 2.) the resolutions passed by delegates were generally devoid of substance and fact; and 3.) the problems presented are not those with which the Harvard community is concerned...
...last point is the crucial one, for, as Leland argued, "The NSA never got around to discussing the problems of Harvard College." The Council after hearing three hours of debate, decided eleven to four to agree with Leland that there was "little value" in remaining members of the student association...
...protest raised by some students against Harvard's withdrawal serves as a reminder that Council opinion has not always been so adverse to NSA. In fact, members voted twelve to four in 1957 to remain in the organization, and two years ago they approved NSA membership thirteen...