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...Willner '47, president of the liberal SDA. has written his idea of a platform for the National Students Organization, which meets this September in Wisconsin. The articles, advocating safeguards to assure democracy within the organization, is timely, lets a few generalizations suffice for a positive program. Then there is a study of veterans' bonuses that shows four or five better ways by which the government could spend this money: city planning, cancer research, mental hospitals. In a rather illogical about-face at the end, the author suggests that veterans ask for the money and give it to these worthy causes...
President Truman's Advisory Commission on Universal Training has called upon Don S. Willner '47, head of the newly-organized Students for Democratic Action, to testify at a hearing tomorrow afternoon in the White House. In a statement made last night, Willner said that he would present the SDA stand against "universal training," which he brands "a sugar-coated phrase for compulsory military service...
...Army's plan for military training, now under consideration by the presidential commission, is opposed by the SDA, which would put all armed service upon a purely voluntary basis. Willner plans to stress this viewpoint, as well as attack Truman's contention that training is "good for the boys...
...Coon (H), 2-1. Peraci (A) defeated Wightman (H), 2-1. Stillson (A) defeated Levin (H), 2-0. Warren (H) defeated Lauer (A), 2-1. Oliver and McMuller (A) defeated Backe and Pratt (H), 2-0. Tufts and Coon (H) defeated Wellborn and Cummings (A), 2-1. Levin and Willner (H) defeated Stillson and Maihofer...
...Willard Hotel simultaneously with the newly-formed liberal organization, Americans for Democratic Action, 154 students from 44 colleges and schools from all parts of the nation organized Students for Democratic Action, a national liberal student body to work in a semi-autonomous status with the ADA. Don S. Willner '47, former president of BLU, was elected national chairman of the new organization at the end of the three-day convention which started on March...