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More important, a referendum might generate interest in USNSA among Harvard students. At present the burden for informing the University about USNSA falls on the committee within the HCUA selected for that purpose. Heretofore its efforts at publicity have been spotty. Very few Harvard students are aware of the numerous opportunities for study, social service, political action and travel which the NSA provides. Few, indeed, know what the organization is or appreciate the fact that it represents the student governments of some 400 American campuses, with a total membership of over 1.5 million...
...Soccer; House Soccer; Winthrop House Committee 1958-1959, 59-60; Harvard Student Council 1958-59; '59-60; '60-61; Vice-President of Harvard Student Council 1959-60; Treasurer of Harvard Pre-Law Society 1960-61; Chairman (1960-61) and vice-Chairman (1959-60) of the New England Region of USNSA...
...nuclear bomb testing as a subject of vital concern to the educated student." But the Twelfth Congress made a specific, though moderate, stand on the testing issue by expressing 'its confidence in the resolution of the ISC concerning 'a definite agreement on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests.'" USNSA (at the 8th ISC at Lima, Peru) backed that resolution in order to block a counterproposal by three Communist-dominated student unions to censure only the United States for continuing tests...
Proponents of the broad interpretation of the "students as students" phrase on issues concerning students of foreign countries maintain that USNSA occupies a unique position in world affairs. They claim that because of its contact with other student groups, which assert considerable political pressure in their own countries, NSA has its fingers on the pulse of world politics. A former NSA International Affairs vice-president said that because of his contacts with foreign student leaders, the NSA files in Philadelphia had a more accurate picture of the Cuban Revolution and the Icelandic Elections than the State Department...
Supporters assert that the National Student Congress only claims to represent directly the student governments of the member colleges. Furthermore, they say, foreign student leaders realize that the resolutions of USNSA do not necessarily represent the views of "American students...