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Treasurer Lewis B. Oliver '61 has resigned from the Student Council for "personal reasons." The resignation will take effect immediately...
...Russians constitute half of a 24-man delegation touring the United States for a month under an exchange agreement between the Soviet Youth Organization and the Council on Student Travel. They arrived in New York yesterday and will visit Philadelphia and Washington before returning to New York late next month...
...claims to represent the views of its member schools. It is not an association of college students or delegates representing their views, but a federation of delegates from student governments. The pronouncements and resolutions of the NSA convention are presented as those of the participating schools, although there does exist provision for an objecting school to disassociate itself. At the same time it offers itself to the public as representing all the students. This role is demonstrated by its actions and votes at international conferences of students where its masquerade as the voice of American students finds ready acceptance, notwithstanding...
...Students in the U.S., unlike those in so many other countries, do not form a cohesive body. They have not, if you like, a class consciousness. And so for the Student Council report to say "The National Student Association is premised on the assumption that the American student community, in pursuing a common aim of knowledge, can work together as a group. . ." is to invent fiction...
...judge by the apathy of students at Harvard to the whole issue of NSA membership last year, there is little such feeling among students here. Membership will not be a cure-all for that apathy, deplorable as it may be. There is no assurance that the pontifications of Harvard delegates to the NSA conferences truly represent the opinion of the student body; they must speak for themselves since apathy prevents expression of most views on the value of the Association. When the disadvantage of personal representation is weighed against the supposed advantage of membership in a non-representative group...