Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congress sets policy for the United States National Student Association, a confederation of 300 student governments, including those of Harvard and Radcliffe. NSA was founded here at the University of Wisconsin...
Vietnam, the biggest issue at most colleges last year, dominated the congress. NSA's national staff, which must make explanations to an often critical constituency, was afraid of a bitter fight followed by a resolution calling for immediate unilateral American withdrawal from Vietnam...
...normally cautious Stephen J. M. Robbins of UCLA, the outgoing president of NSA, led the other main attack from the left. His proposal that NSA back a halt in the bombings regardless of the outcome of negotiations lost by a narrow margin...
...substitution was opposed by conservatives and many NSA officials, who feared it might cause some schools to disaffiliate. Their attempt to change "propose Communist China's admission to the United Nations" to "not to oppose" failed by two votes in a dramatic rollcall...
...addition, the congress directed the NSA staff to raise money for the legal defense of the Berkeley sit-ins and to provide "all possible support" to similar movements in the future...