Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issues big and little that leadership emerges and alignments take shape. At Madison the political jockeying occured quite conspicuously: at virulent odds were the Catholic colleges, representing some 35 percent of the votes, and the Communist-Party-led delegates (from duly-invited front organizations and campuses where those influence elections), representing perhaps 9 percent of the votes. In between stood a centrist liberal 17 percent organized by Don S. Willner '47--national chairman of Students for Democratic Action--to check the aggressive forward positions taken by both extremes. Forty percent of the Convention's strength did not engage in concerted...
...College; 'Ralph Dungan, vice-president in charge of domestic affairs from St. Joseph's College near Philadelphia; and Robert Smith 1G, international affairs commission head--comprise a neat balance of the divergent interests in America's student community. Coupled with the pattern of political power which produced it, this leadership spells a progressive middle-way for NSA which can win the recognition of hostile administrations and the constitutional ratification of suspicious student electorates...
Unmentored by adult-level leadership in U.S. education, the founding delegates of the new National Student Association have won a notable first success: UNESCO has awarded NSA a seat on its American commission to speak officially for this country's widely-dispersed millions of youth. Such authoritative recognition for the fledgling body has come only because of the imposing conduct of the young men and women at Madison. They strutted maturity and the best statesmanship of their generation...
Before it is too late NSA must consciously set out to fulfill the crying necessity for a directing hierarchy unconnected with the many established influences at work on campuses everywhere. This is neither to rap any specific present leadership nor the particular point of view which a partisan group might advance. It is simply insurance that NSA not die of slow strangulation at the hands of those knowingly or not using it for personal political and special organizational ends...
...Then if this year's program follows through nationally on the oft-urged principle of selecting limited projects not running up every beckoning side-alley--students on each campus with no prior loyalty may find their way into the work of the commissions. By next spring the second-year leadership will have reached its stature through a record utterly within the NSA fabric...