Word: nsa
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Phillips agreed that students must speak, but then presented his well-known argument that the N.S.A. is unrepresentative, and, in fact, "is out of touch with the mainstream of student opinion." He noted that most students in NSA affiliated schools have no idea of what NSA is anyway, and that the representatives chosen to go to the National Congress are usually non-representative...
With the YRNF out of the way, Phil- lips and his band of conservatives headed for Madison, Wis., and the National Student Association convention. NSA is now and always has been overwhelmingly liberal-phillips and his allies hoped to introduce conservative ideas to Association policy considerations...
Their best showing was on the question of whether or not to condemn the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a traditional scapegoat of the NSA. A conservative resolution that advocated reform rather than abolition of the committee failed by only 236 to 216, although the eventually successful resolution to abolish the committee passed with a more clear-cut margin...
...conservative position on the pro- HUAC resolution had been heavily compromised in an effort to gain votes, and on other issues the Phillips contingent did not fare so well. Their most resounding setback was in the NSA executive committee's unanimous refusal to censure Vice President Timothy Jenkins for saying, "I think we now have unmasked in the final reality what exactly exists behind the facade of the conservative image, because we now see the base and debased colonial, repressive, slave- owning kind of mentality that can exist in a hard, fascist- type regime...
...addition to providing an exchange of information among the students, NSA officials hope that the conference will show national officials the high degree of enthusiasm that has been generated on college campuses by the idea of a Peace Corps...