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...only are the disadvantages of NSA membership being lessened, the potential benefits make joining eminently worthwhile. The NSA serves valuable functions domestically and abroad. On the national scene the Student Association is active in bringing issues of academic freedom (such as NDEA) and federal aid to education into the awareness of students and key governmental officials alike...
...Student Council acted wisely in sending the report on NDEA back to a committee. As originally presented, it never came near the excellent level of previous Council reports, being intemperate in language and exaggerated in scope. Such statements as, "Every student who signs the affidavit in effect forfeits the liberty of thought and expression guaranteed in the Bill of Rights... Should the slightest revolutionary idea enter his head, he commits a felony under the law," led one member of the Council to term the report "immaturely worded, overstated, and superficial...
Debate on the 16-page report of the NSA committee was restrained and brief, and somewhat anticlimatic after the two-hour diatribe on NDEA. Most Council members seemed to feel that the issue should be dispatched with as much speed as possible...
Asked if he considered President Pusey's stand of freezing NDEA funds a violation of the students' rights, he admitted the possibility of an infringement, but gave three reasons explaining Pusey's stand...
First, he pointed out, the University supplies one-tenth of the money in an NDEA loan. Second, the University should not have to administer the disclaimer if it does not believe in it. Third, Harvard has a responsibility towards other colleges to oppose the disclaimer because of its virtually unique position of financial independence...