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Although the National Student Association has never been a very significant force in the College, there is reason to urge the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs to keep the College within the NSA. The NSA deals with many domestic and international issues, and Harvard is in a position to contribute to the Association's work...
...important question before the HCUA tonight should not be whether Harvard will remain in the NSA, but how to select the College's representatives to the annual NSA Congress. In addition, the council might reflect on how Harvard can most effectively relate to the organization...
...NSA attempts to make students aware of the educational and social issues which affect them, in the hope that such concern will lead to creative action. The National Student Congress each summer serves the NSA's educational purposes by providing a forum for student opinion on important issues which face the student community--from in loco parentis and the House Committee on Un-American Activities to civil rights, the aims of education, and nuclear testing. Throughout the year, the national and regional NSA bodies conduct conferences and seminars on such issues as academic freedom, neo-colonialism, and race relations...
...addition to its programs of domestic action, such as its cooperation with the Northern Student Movement and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the NSA does important work in international relations. Its Foreign Student Leadership Project brings foreign student leaders to the United States for brief or extended visits of travel and study. NSA's leadership in the International Student Conference, which is comprised of numerous national unions of students, enables the Association to influence foreign students--who are often political leaders--in a way that governmental and other agencies...
...NSA has failed to exert a real influence at Harvard largely because many of its educational purposes are achieved through political groups, publications, and the critical-reflective atmosphere of the College itself. But since this atmosphere does not exist on many American campuses, NSA can play an important role in the educational process at other schools. In the past, Harvard has often made significant contributions to the development of NSA and to its programs; the College continues to be in the vanguard of the organization. Harvard students are national and regional officers; and the University's faculty and physical facilities...