Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States universities are participating in the campaign. NSA officers hope for over 40,000 names. Few universities in the South belong to the NSA...
Henri DeBayle, chairman of the Student Council's NSA committee, is satisfied with Harvard's showing, but he doubts that the petition will have any real effect. A similar petition in 1952 helped stop a similar segregation drive, but De-Bayle pointed out that the current prime minister, Dirk Strijdom, has a firmer apartheid policy than his predecessor, and cares less for world opinion...
Although there is little hope that moral pressure will force Strijdom to abandon the forthcoming segregation of the universities of Capetown and Witwatersrand, several international student groups, among them NSA, are attempting to apply such pressure on the South African Government. A petition will circulate in Harvard this week, similar to one that will be introduced into every university in the non-Communist world, condemning the segregation. Though such action may have little effect, it will further remind Strijdom that his policies are in little accord with the Western principles he is trying to preserve in South Africa. The fact...
Debate over NSA participation began last year when 25 students signed a petition to put Radcliffe's membership to an all-college vote. The students complained that the benefits did not justify the annual costs of $75 in dues and $400 to send delegates to conferences...
Larry Johnson '58, Student Council president said yesterday that the question of Harvard's NSA membership would probably come before the Council in late spring or early fall...