Word: stand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third issue split the membership: whether to join the IUS. NSA sent a representative, William Ellis '46, to Prague, charged with 13 conditions under which NSA would join IUS. While the negotiations were going on the Communist coup d'etat took place, and the IUS refused to take a stand against the new government for jailing anti-Communist student leaders and professors. Ellis broke off negotiations, resigned from the Prague Secretariat, and denounced IUS's betrayal of student liberties...
...vote of 21 to 3 downed the resolution on the grounds that Pusey's stand deprives the students of a free choice in the matter. The Council also condemned the move because it might leave some boys without necessary funds...
Another ammendment supported Pusey's action on the condition that the University agrees to grant other funds to students who deprived of NDEA aid by the University's stand. It lost...
Monro commented on the College's "obligation to take a stand" on the loyalty requirement and said that a strong registration of opinion from students and "all sorts of universities" is necessary to eventuate repeal of the requirement...
...more than one of the two Latin American or two neutralist countries on the Council. Insisting on this stacked jury makes the whole Council a farce. Even many Scandinavian, Latin American and British Commonwealth nations, usually satellites of the U.S. when voting at the U.N., have rejected our stand this time...