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...M.I.T. Institute Committee has voted 8 to 4 to withdraw from the National Student Association. The decision, postponed for a month, was reached Friday night after a two-hour discussion between the Committee, Donald Hoffman, president of NSA, and Harold Bakken, a former president of NSA...
Speaking for nearly an hour, the NSA executives reviewed three basic reasons for Tech's continued participation in the association. NSA, they said, offers "something for everybody"; it can be changed by schools within the organiza- and; and the officers are continually attempting improvements...
...Committee, however, remained unconvinced by these arguments, maintaining that NSA is, at present, incapable of any significant accomplishment, and that only a sustained and vigorous effort from several member colleges could make it worthwhile. "Apparently no one at Tech is willing to make this effort," commented Christopher Sprague '60, president of the M.I.T. student body...
This inability to focus on critical issues has been characteristic of Council reports of the past half year. Since the HSA report, which was crippled by a biased committee, the Council received a report on NSA and two on NDEA. The NSA study devoted itself to the problem of how a representative student organization could be achieved, without ever really discussing the central issue of whether such an organization is desirable...
...discussions about rejoining NSA have shown, it is not every day that students have the opportunity to take part in an issue that is at once educationally and politically relevant. I think this one is. David Riesman '31, Henry Ford professor of Social Sciences...