Word: nsa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main controversy of the meeting evolved over the NSA referendum which received such half-hearted participation last Thursday...
Several members criticized delaying a decision on NSA, but Council President Larry R. Johnson '58 pointed out that the Council is committed to membership until September. George C. Pontikes '58, elections chairman, revealed that the referendum ballots had contained several "not very complimentary" suggestions for the abandonment of the Council...
...light vote was interpreted by Council president Larry R. Johnson '58 to mean that "the Council should have made NSA better known," since "people aren't too concerned one way or the other." Johnson felt that the decision on NSA membership now definitely remains with the Council...
Opposing interpretations of the vote came from the two co-chairmen of the Council's NSA Referendum Committee, Luigi Einaudi '57 and Theodore D. Moscowitz '58. Einaudi felt the vote showed that the Council should increase its participation before making a final decision, while Moscowitz felt that the split vote forbade the Council from joining "for the entire student body...
Bruce D. Larkin, vice-president of NSA's international committee, acknowleged that "no one throws a party like the Festival," but said that the central concern of the sponsors is politics rather than student affairs. The NSA recently broke with one of the sponsoring organizations, the International Union of Students, when the IUS became Communist-dominated...