Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the motion was defeated, the chair ruled further discussion on NSA out of order. Leland explained that anyone who wanted to could discuss the matter at the Councils open agenda meeting...
Further undergraduate support for continued Harvard membership in the NSA developed yesterday when Bakhtiyar Ali Khan '59. Secretary of the Harvard Islamic Society, announced his group's opposition to the Council's vote for withdrawal. The full text of Khan's statement may be found on page five...
...NSA is an organization that participates in the activities of the international organizations in America. Harvard fortunately has a large number of foreign students. I do not speak as a spokesman of all foreign students, but I certainly do speak as a spokesman of the foreign students representing the Moslem countries at Harvard...
When Leland, along with Tim Zagat, the other Council delegate to the NSA convention, submitted a report on the conference to the Student Council, they listed three major criticisms of the organization: 1.) the representatives do not represent the views of their student bodies and are therefore not qualified to vote on their behalf on national or political issues; 2.) the resolutions passed by delegates were generally devoid of substance and fact; and 3.) the problems presented are not those with which the Harvard community is concerned...
...last point is the crucial one, for, as Leland argued, "The NSA never got around to discussing the problems of Harvard College." The Council after hearing three hours of debate, decided eleven to four to agree with Leland that there was "little value" in remaining members of the student association...