Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NSA, its opponents claim, is weak because it is a federation of student governments which are themselves weak, instead of an organization of individuals. A more workable federation, one member of the anti-NSA forces in Washington suggested in an interview last week, would include representatives from a variety of campus organizations, including SDS, SNCC, and religious clubs...
Although member colleges have remained loyal, there is a faction of American students who frankly wish NSA had decided to fold instead. They feel that NSA is a failure as a national student union, and that its dissolution might be a step towards constructing a better...
...addition, it is said, NSA is not very democratic. The highest officers, who are draft-deferred and earn as much as $4000 per year, exercise almost total control. The National Supervisory Board was a "rubber stamp" for presidential decisions until last week. And the permanent staff of 35 or 40, which has whatever is left of the power, is appointed by the president. It is true that the national congress--one voting delegate from each member college--elects the president, its choice, critics say, is rigidly limited. Future officers customarily are those who have successfully negotiated a chain of training...
...example of the weakness of the congress, the critics point out, is its failure ever to demand a complete financial accounting. In 15 years, no NSA officer has displayed a budget for everyone to see. (This is not to say that making a budget public would have betrayed the relationship with...
...Brown Jr., a Harvard Divinity student who issued NSA's statement a week ago as chairman of its Supervisory Board, concedes that NSA could benefit from some structural and procedural changes. But Bdown is one of the organization's most articulate supporters, and he thinks that the "cleansing" of NSA provides a "greater opportunity than ever before" for the creation of a strong union...