Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Student Association revealed late yesterday that it has been subsidized since the early 1950's by the Central Intelligence Agency. NSA president Eugene Groves said that the group has been struggling for two years to break the "covert relationship" and would no longer accept CIA money. The CIA first offered the money, he said, because it wanted to counter Communist-sponsored youth activities...
...plenary session of the National Student Association's annual conference, held at the University of Illionois last summer, former NSA president Allard Lowenstein argued against David Harris, bearded and blue-denimed president of the Stanford student body, on the tactics of political involvement. Harris claimed that extreme action in the form of protest was necessary in support of a moral position. Since the entire society appeared to be unshakably corrupt, he contended, a pragmatic, peicemeal approach to social action was doomed to failure...
...real work of drafting began on Sept. 7 in New York City at the home of Abby Erdmann, a student at Smith College. In addition to 12 student body presidents, college newspaper editors, and several elder statesmen of NSA, the group included Norman Thomas, former Socialist candidate for President, who went to dinner with several students before the meeting convened...
Miss Feltenstein said that the conference would probably be held at Agassiz because Harvard classrooms would be unavailable. This limits the number of students who may participate to 400, she said. Since students from the other 28 schools in the NSA New England region will be invited this means only about 150 Harvard and Radcliffe students will be able to attend...
Volunteers participating in the drive are being asked to provide $500 worth of bond coverage. William Hammond '67, NSA Coordinator for Harvard, yesterday explained that the organization makes this request because "we'd hate to have somebody spend his Christmas in jail...