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...addition, it is said, NSA is not very democratic. The highest officers, who are draft-deferred and earn as much as $4000 per year, exercise almost total control. The National Supervisory Board was a "rubber stamp" for presidential decisions until last week. And the permanent staff of 35 or 40, which has whatever is left of the power, is appointed by the president. It is true that the national congress--one voting delegate from each member college--elects the president, its choice, critics say, is rigidly limited. Future officers customarily are those who have successfully negotiated a chain of training...
...example of the weakness of the congress, the critics point out, is its failure ever to demand a complete financial accounting. In 15 years, no NSA officer has displayed a budget for everyone to see. (This is not to say that making a budget public would have betrayed the relationship with...
...Brown Jr., a Harvard Divinity student who issued NSA's statement a week ago as chairman of its Supervisory Board, concedes that NSA could benefit from some structural and procedural changes. But Bdown is one of the organization's most articulate supporters, and he thinks that the "cleansing" of NSA provides a "greater opportunity than ever before" for the creation of a strong union...
Destroying NSA, Brown is convinced, would only set back the movement toward a more powerful national student union. NSA at least has the advantage of being a going concern, with personnel and money already committed to a number of successful domestic programs. It has taken a strong stand in favor of civil rights legislation and educational reform, and sponsors a nation-wide, PBH-type tutorial program...
...only way to save "what is good in NSA," Brown believes, is to purge the organization of all underground connotations. This cannot be done, he feels, through a Presidential commission like the one President Johnson set up in immediate response to the disclosure. This three-man commission, with Richard Helms, CIA director, as one of the members, is not an adequate means of restoring NSA's credibility. "Helms Investigating Helms -- the executive investigating the executive--wouldn't even satisfy domestic critics, let alone foreign critics," Brown has said...