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...true that many of the people who do, and have made the "non-political" objection to NSA are individuals student interest to political questions, injured in some way by the shift of This is a shift which NSA seems intent upon furthering. Student body presidents and fraternity people, consciously or unconsciously, often wish more attention were given to campus problems. For the campus is their element. But at the same time there does appear to have been a more fundamental change in student attitudes that has brought about the increase in this kind of criticism of NSA...
...reasons for what appears, to this writer, to be an increasing privatism on American campuses in the past few months are hard to pin down. But this trend seems to be the source of the changing focus in the criticism leveled at NSA. The recent increase in student activism that began in 1900 was clearly due, in part, to the impact of the sit-ins. Picketing, sitting in, freedom riding all gave students the feeling that they could do something to affect that great, ponderous bureaucratic world out there. The brief vogue of peace and disarmament demonstrations helped keep this...
...same time it is true that NSA has moved away from some of the burning political issues and toward questions more closely connected with the academic community. In some sense this is a response to the criticism that NSA is too political. In part this movement is a tactical one. Perhaps the people who would ignore NSA if approached on more political issues can be involved in debate that will ultimately lead to questions of social concern by becoming involved in questions of higher education...
...there is much feeling in the Association that there are genuine questions that face the American educational community that need student attention in their own right. The impact of federal funds on the university, the nature of social development of students in an academic community, academic freedom: these issues NSA feels a responsibility toward--since they affect students and it is a student organization. Also here NSA has a greater chance to make itself felt. Other educational organizations like the American Association of University Professors, and the National Education Association take NSA views seriously, not as an indication of what...
...hire people to do the work that full time students cannot get to. The fact that there is apparently some increase in student apathy and privatism makes the job of the Association more difficult. But perhaps it is one more argument for the need for an organization like NSA...