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...Student Council acted "irrationally" and without consideration of the facts when it withdrew from the National Student Association, Richard P. Beck, administrative assistant to the NSA's international affairs vice-President, stated yesterday...
Beck accused Harvard's voting delegates of "lack of preparation and of good judgment" at the annual National Student Congress in the past few years. He also claimed that the Council has "misrepresented" several functions and services of the NSA, as well as the costs of membership. He thus criticized the stand taken by Andrew Warshaw '59, who felt that the resolutions of the congress were handled with a "slapdash method...
...regret that, in an otherwise fine job of reporting the Student Council Forum on NSA, your reporter attributed to me a statement which I did not make...
...that NSA "would not care too much" if Harvard left. I only remarked that, if Harvard wished certain reforms in procedures at National Congresses, it was not likely that disaffiliation would frighten the 379 other member schools in the National Student Association into effecting these reforms. I added that all those familiar with the mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard and the NSA were certainly concerned at the move to disaffiliate. They view this as an abdication of the responsibility for leadership in national and international student affairs which Harvard has always stood...
...statement released by Martin Silverman '59, president of the U.N. Council, declared that the organization "was upset" by the speed with which the Student Council made its decision to withdraw. Silverman's statement noted that while the U.N. Council recognized as valid the Student Council's criticisms of the NSA, it regretted "that these organs and programs of value to campus groups would, because of the Student Council's action, no longer be available to them...