Word: nsa
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Girls who plan to run for RGA office must hand in their petitions to Emily Deman in Holmes 410 before 9 a.m. tomorrow. Petitions are being accepted for the offices of president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, NSA representative, and nominating committee chairman. Previous participation in RGA is not required of candidates...
...NSA staff members discussed the role of national student organizations in political change in Africa, Latin America, the Far East, and the Middle East in seminars at the conference. Taylor praised the active role of students in most countries, but the difficulty in many places, he said, is that student groups become the tool of a particular political party or interest group...
When the "individual student is acting within his own conviction," he will be making a contribution to his own society and to the world, Taylor said. NSA, he suggested, should develop student governments and political parties which can "express concern and take action on social issues...
Lowenstein has never stayed in one place long. A native of Raleigh, he graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1949. He spent the next year in Washington as an assistant to Senator Frank Graham and the following year became president of the National Student Association. While NSA president, he earned a reputation as the best public speaker the Association has ever had, organizing and setting policy for the International Student Congress, which broke from the communist-dominated International Union of Students...
Funds are now being sought to finance the students' training and living expenses, and to purchase teaching materials. About $10,000 is needed to support six volunteers and the project director, Mary Varella, a former SNCC worker, according to Joel Sharkey, NSA National Affairs Vice President...