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Disposing, for the moment, of the theory that Harvard can change the NSA by getting out of it, the controversy boils down to a debate over whether the NSA can offer the College anything of value. If participation in inter-college discussions on pilot programs for high-school teaching, on the problem and solution of racial integration, and on the problem of Federal aid to education is valuable, then NSA has something to offer...
...discussion is not NSA's raison-d'etre. Nor is it a rationale for participation. It is, however, hard to deny the advantage of membership and energetic activity within an organization which "represents" the mass of American college students. The Student Council has complained that the representation in NSA is phony, that student leaders are not elected on political grounds and cannot speak for their constituents in matters of national and international concern. The NSA does not pretend that its delegates are political representatives of their schools. What it does believe, and rightly, is that student leaders, elected from...
...organization representing American students has a vast potential for action. And the role which the NSA plays in international student affairs is an appropriately significant one. As only one of a vast number of better organized pressure groups in the United States, it is relatively ineffective. But in the foreign exchanges and relations which it promotes, it serves an indispensable function. No other group so effectively presents democratic views to the student leaders abroad where Communism expends a good deal of effort on student groups. Presuming that Harvard students are some day to be leaders of their country, it seems...
...Chitranjan Kapur '60, Lawrence B. Ekpebu '60, and Lionel B. Spiro '60--affirm that defects of the program can be corrected within the framework of the organization itself. "For us, this will mean sending a full delegation to the national conferences and increasing our correspondence with NSA," they asserted...
Defects in the NSA are due basically to its size, and could be eliminated through a more adequate system of representation. The group suggested that Harvard students use their ability and influence to build up the NSA, not to destroy...