Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the National Student Association has never been a very significant force in the College, there is reason to urge the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs to keep the College within the NSA. The NSA deals with many domestic and international issues, and Harvard is in a position to contribute to the Association's work...
...important question before the HCUA tonight should not be whether Harvard will remain in the NSA, but how to select the College's representatives to the annual NSA Congress. In addition, the council might reflect on how Harvard can most effectively relate to the organization...
...NSA attempts to make students aware of the educational and social issues which affect them, in the hope that such concern will lead to creative action. The National Student Congress each summer serves the NSA's educational purposes by providing a forum for student opinion on important issues which face the student community--from in loco parentis and the House Committee on Un-American Activities to civil rights, the aims of education, and nuclear testing. Throughout the year, the national and regional NSA bodies conduct conferences and seminars on such issues as academic freedom, neo-colonialism, and race relations...
...member of the Lowell committee also pointed out that NSA performs certain services, particularly valuable for American students travelling in Europe. The Eliot House chairman, Michael Dennis '64, added to these reasons the fact that "two house members are very active in NSA and are doing a good...
Objections which were raised to the political emphasis of the NSA, formed the major reason for Quincy's opposition. Lowell's committee considered the political aspect a disadvantage, but Marshall Moriarty '64, the committee's chairman, said that the majority believed it was important for Harvard to be represented in a national student group...