Word: hsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This inability to focus on critical issues has been characteristic of Council reports of the past half year. Since the HSA report, which was crippled by a biased committee, the Council received a report on NSA and two on NDEA. The NSA study devoted itself to the problem of how a representative student organization could be achieved, without ever really discussing the central issue of whether such an organization is desirable...
...body of the report deals with four specific complaints which have been levelled at the HSA, and admits that three of them are justified. Nevertheless, the authors of the report conclude that the HSA "is fulfilling its self-appointed task." Hopefully, the Council watchdog appointed to keep a close eye on the HSA will prove to be one valuable result of the report, and will keep the Student Body informed of the doings of the HSA, but the report offers no other solutions to few abuses whose existence it admits...
...report itself glosses over many of the harsh criticisms which have been leveled against the HSA. While admitting that many of the agency directors "could not be called needy in any sense of the term," it offers no plan to correct this, but merely suggests that the practice stop. The policy of having agency directors pick their own successors with a rubber stamp approval from the board of directors is mentioned, but there follows no discussion of the possible harmful implications of this procedure. No attempt is made to evaluate the high prices of such groups as the milk...
Like any other group, the HSA is entitled to a fair trial. A sloppy report stemming from an investigating group whose objectivity is suspect is as unfair to the HSA as would be a report prejudiced in the other direction. More to the point, it is unfair to the Council and to the student body whose interests it supposedly protects...
Wiliam M. Kargman '61 expressed puzzlement over the assertion that the HSA could act contrary to the interests of the student body. "I can't see the dangers involved here," he commented