Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civil rights and educational issues will dominate the 16th Congress of the National Student Association, beginning Sunday at the University of Indiana. NSA officials, however, expect the Association's position on a whole series of issues to be challenged by a resurgent group of right-wing students, currently riding the best of a smashing victory at the national Young Republican convention...
...Young Americans for Freedom, the largest conservative student organization, is expected to be especially vocal at Indiana's Bloomington campus. The Big Ten school withdrew from NSA last spring, thanks largely to a campaign by the local YAF chapter...
Some progressive Republican leaders might wish for still more attention to All-American Conferences and less to attacking NSA or the Young Adult Council. But that is not a realistic alternative today. For while it is true that the Young Republicans have been swept up in a sudden "tide of conservatism," this is because they have been more conservative than the party as a whole for almost a decade. The best that can be expected is a rule of tolerance for all points of view. A progressive can be grateful that the Young Republican leadership, barring a reversal at June...
...there is much feeling in the Association that there are genuine questions that face the American educational community that need student attention in their own right. The impact of federal funds on the university, the nature of social development of students in an academic community, academic freedom: these issues NSA feels a responsibility toward--since they affect students and it is a student organization. Also here NSA has a greater chance to make itself felt. Other educational organizations like the American Association of University Professors, and the National Education Association take NSA views seriously, not as an indication of what...
...hire people to do the work that full time students cannot get to. The fact that there is apparently some increase in student apathy and privatism makes the job of the Association more difficult. But perhaps it is one more argument for the need for an organization like NSA...