Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 1275 students voting, the referendum squeaked through with 650 in favor of remaining with NSA and 625 against. Of those who answered the question regarding individual satisfaction with the Council's participiation 268 expressed approval and 909 claimed dissatisfaction...
...speakers for the negative side, Merom Brachman '58, Marc Leland '59, and Theodore Moskowitz '58, approached the problem from a somewhat different point of view, by asking repeatedly what the NSA had to offer to the Harvard student body...
They contended that the subjects discussed at NSA Congresses were of little interest to Harvard since "we operate in a more mature atmosphere" than is found in most midwestern state universities...
Moskowitz accused the NSA conferences of doing too much talking and not enough in the way of concrete action. He pointed out that at last summer's national congress, 18 of 30 resolutions passed were merely "commendatory" in nature. "We congratulated Sudan on establishing a university declared for free speech, and decided that international student cooperation was a good thing," Moskowitz said...
...NSA opportunities should be made known to the student body; and interest in proposed NSA scholarships for foreign students at Harvard should be shown. Membership in NSA should by all means be continued at Harvard, but the Council would do well to make it the active membership it was in the 1946-1953 period, not the apathetic one it has been in the last three years. Participation in NSA can be a useful function of the Student Council, and one which should be subjected to periodic referendums. In this way Harvard students would become not only better informed about NSA...