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...this condition the NSA propagandists are partly at fault. They have not succeeded in showing that their group, containing 329 member schools with a 750,000 enrollment, is the only real national association of students. As such it is the most effective vehicle for expressing student opinion and obtaining student interests. Even though the NSA does not maintain a Washington lobby, it does have considerable influence on national legislation. For example, in the past few years, the NSA has been instrumental in keeping appropriations for Fulbright scholarships at a high level. The NSA, while it represents a generally voteless segment...
...Although NSA membership is valuable for its national benefits, Harvard has traditionally found itself less apathetic toward the international program of the organization. Harvard students, in fact, were responsible for establishing the NSA International Commission in 1947. Four of the organization's nine international vice-presidents have come from Harvard, which has been the most influential member in deciding international policy...
...major areas of international activity is membership in the International Student Conference, which vigorously combats the great influence of international Communist student organizations. One of America's five delegates to this Conference was from Harvard, as were four of the eight people NSA sent on a tour to aid foreign students last summer...
Ending Harvard's membership in NSA would mean that the Seminar would be moved elsewhere, as would be the office of the International Commission. Harvard's withdrawal would not only stifle Harvard activity and leadership in the International Commission, but would end all hopes of bringing Harvard out of apathy, would deprive Harvard students of the benefits of NSA membership, and it would lessen the power of an organization which is, in itself, worthy of support...
...membership dues the Student Council pays to NSA are well-spent and one of the most worthwhile appropriations of the Council. If required, this is all that need be appropriated; if necessary, the delegates to the National Congress could pay their own expenses as do many throughout the country. A full delegation should be sent to the National Congress, where it can help express student opinion at the University, and regional conferences should be attended more regularly...