Word: nsa
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Last fall both the College Young Republicans and the YAF passed qualified resolutions asking their members to participate in NSA. This seems to indicate that part of the problem is approaching solution. On the structural side several reforms have been made in the operation of the Congress. But the rules were never the real problem. Conservatives have apparently realized that, despite its problems, the structure of NSA is open, and they can influence...
...same time, the newer complaint that NSA takes positions that are, or should be, of no concern to students does imply a fundamental disagreement between the Association and its critics. Most of the issues on which there is no student opinion, and on which NSA posses resolutions, are considered on the theory that there ought to be student concern in such areas. Someone once quipped "If we really represented American student opinion, the Codification of Policy would be 100 blank pages." Apparently it is not sufficient for NSA to merely ask students to become concerned with one area or another...
...true that many of the people who do, and have made the "non-political" objection to NSA are individuals student interest to political questions, injured in some way by the shift of This is a shift which NSA seems intent upon furthering. Student body presidents and fraternity people, consciously or unconsciously, often wish more attention were given to campus problems. For the campus is their element. But at the same time there does appear to have been a more fundamental change in student attitudes that has brought about the increase in this kind of criticism of NSA...
...reasons for what appears, to this writer, to be an increasing privatism on American campuses in the past few months are hard to pin down. But this trend seems to be the source of the changing focus in the criticism leveled at NSA. The recent increase in student activism that began in 1900 was clearly due, in part, to the impact of the sit-ins. Picketing, sitting in, freedom riding all gave students the feeling that they could do something to affect that great, ponderous bureaucratic world out there. The brief vogue of peace and disarmament demonstrations helped keep this...
...same time it is true that NSA has moved away from some of the burning political issues and toward questions more closely connected with the academic community. In some sense this is a response to the criticism that NSA is too political. In part this movement is a tactical one. Perhaps the people who would ignore NSA if approached on more political issues can be involved in debate that will ultimately lead to questions of social concern by becoming involved in questions of higher education...