Word: isc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international scene NSA provides scholarships through the World University Service for student leaders from other countries and organizes exchange visits. Perhaps even more significant than these activities is the role NSA assumes in the International Student Conference (ISC). The future leaders of especially the underdeveloped nations are often active in their student associations, and these associations are often active in politics. NSA has a unique chance to communicate with these students and through its resolutions of policy demonstrate that Americans are aware of their problems and sympathetic to their aspirations...
From the point of view of Harvard itself, membership in NSA offers a valuable opportunity for University students interested in world student problems to channel their efforts through NSA and the ISC--a chance that would be lost if Harvard stays...
...phrase "students as students." It became evident that NSA couldn't continue to avoid the issues that were of vital importance to students in colonial areas and newly independent countries. The suppression of student rights in Paraguay or Cuba or Algeria were issues of burning importance at an ISC conference, yet at an NSA Congress they were merely "political issues...
...resolution the Congress had simply "encouraged its members to inform themselves on nuclear bomb testing as a subject of vital concern to the educated student." But the Twelfth Congress made a specific, though moderate, stand on the testing issue by expressing 'its confidence in the resolution of the ISC concerning 'a definite agreement on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests.'" USNSA (at the 8th ISC at Lima, Peru) backed that resolution in order to block a counterproposal by three Communist-dominated student unions to censure only the United States for continuing tests...
...order to continue contact with world-wide student movements, as well as to strengthen the free world's ISC, asserts the "liberal" wing of NSA, American students should continue to accept world-wide student issues as their own. The more conservative group which favors the textual meaning of the moderately-worded resolutions, frequently contributes negative votes on the grounds that as a student organization the NSA lacks the qualifications to judge an issue...