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...P.V.P.'s are hard to call on for aid once they have driven out of the campus gate. In any case they only get to a small minority of campuses, and then only for a mere brief visit. Regional officers have proved almost impotent in helping some poor confused NSA coordinator, who wants to "educate" his fellows but hasn't the slightest idea of how to go about that rather large task...
Recently there has been a good deal of talk in NSA of splitting the country into four to six large areas, and setting up a permanent office for a program vice-president in each area...
...light of this discussion of NSA structure and operation, the older criticisms of NSA as being "unrepresentative" have a certain validity. In fact NSA was not involving a good many of the more conservative students in the country--either because their schools didn't belong or because students on the "right" were not attracted to what the Association was trying to do in the 50's. The idea of making other people concerned about political issues appealed, in general, to people who were fairly liberal. The liberals in addition seem to work harder at NSA conferences to influence the great...
Last fall both the College Young Republicans and the YAF passed qualified resolutions asking their members to participate in NSA. This seems to indicate that part of the problem is approaching solution. On the structural side several reforms have been made in the operation of the Congress. But the rules were never the real problem. Conservatives have apparently realized that, despite its problems, the structure of NSA is open, and they can influence...
...same time, the newer complaint that NSA takes positions that are, or should be, of no concern to students does imply a fundamental disagreement between the Association and its critics. Most of the issues on which there is no student opinion, and on which NSA posses resolutions, are considered on the theory that there ought to be student concern in such areas. Someone once quipped "If we really represented American student opinion, the Codification of Policy would be 100 blank pages." Apparently it is not sufficient for NSA to merely ask students to become concerned with one area or another...