Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two weeks of debate, the student body voted yesterday to support the Student Council's withdrawal from the National Student Association. The total vote was 1032 against and 839 for Harvard's membership in the NSA...
Certainly the substitute which the Council proposes is an unreal and valueless one. It is but another of the interminable and inconsequential inter-college bull sessions. The NSA is an action group. Moreover, the Council's ersatz NSA will have little or no remedial effect on the real article. The supposition that NSA relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy...
...withdrawal will have no effect, if the proposed seminar is a pointless exercise in spite, if Harvard can, in fact, derive great benefit from the NSA, there is no point in supporting the Student Council's hastily approved move...
...Harvard should not go back into the NSA on the same level it has maintained in the last few years. The reason for the apparent lack of benefit derived from it is the obvious minimum of effort Harvard has contributed to it. A Council which sends only two members to the National Student Congress cannot hope to remedy NSA's defects. It cannot hope to be well-informed on the resolutions so hastily passed on the floor of the convention, but so thoroughly debated beforehand. It cannot hope to derive full or even partial benefit from either the discussion programs...
Since the founding of NSA and the early dominance of Harvard representatives in it, Harvard has found other, less worthwhile diversions. A vote for NSA in today's referendum should be considered as a vote for increased Harvard representation in the organiztion's activities. A majority for NSA should be interpreted by the Council as a mandate for further and more strenuous participation. Only by acting on such a mandate can Harvard benefit from and contribute to NSA as fully as it should...