Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its formation in 1947, the National Student Association has been the source of continual controversy within the Harvard Student Council. Every year the question of NSA's value to the Council is asked; every year the question goes unanswered, and annually the Council appropriates $600 for NSA activity...
Actually it costs the Council only $200 to belong to NSA, but $400 is supposedly required for travel expenses to the organization's national convention and living expenses while there...
Critics of NSA contend that the body is controlled from the top by a tight core of professional student legislators, and that Harvard plays a very minor role in policy decisions...
...explanations came in the wake of mounting debate on whether NSA services were relevant to Student Council problems, or whether the organization was geared to the concerns of large midwestern universities...
Robert Wilson '58, chairman of the Council's International Committee, also explained to the Adams group that NSA believed "students who are well-informed will make the right decision," and that part of the NSA program was to promote education on the international level...