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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, March 7, 1948
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SPANIEL
by Sam Warren
The apparently widesprea
campus interest in the university'
affiliation with NSA is indeed
healthy indication of student
thinking IF is can be assumed that
students arc Riving it more than
sunerfieial consideration, ana it
they're asking something besides
"What will it do for ME, per
sonally, right away?"
One upper class leprechaun,
nrnminent in leDreehaun activ
ities and with a High I. Q., who
happened into our lair, has cur
rently been worrying its friends
with such positions as these re
garding the NSA. "The NSA
wants to dictate everything the
student does," it said. "And I'M
not going to have any organiza
tion watching MY every move."
(The NSA is not conceived or
constructed in such a way as to
make anv such interference pos
si'ble, nor would any university
administration's direct control
over students allow it, we told
the student leprachaun.)
Next our snritelv friend de
dared that its church authorities
opposed NSA, although youth
groups from its church member
ship were among the initial pro
niKin nf NSA. and although de
nominational schools of its church
annear Drominently on the list of
colleges already affiliated with
NSA.
When this argument failed, our
elf-like chat-mate turned to the
Communism scare, as have many
people including a national as
sociation of college and univer
sity deans who watched last
summer's constitutional conven
tion with great interest. Along
with other observers, the deans
were relfeved to see that the
convention decided to admit only
STUDENT GOVERNING BODIES
to membership and to EXCLUDE
ALL OTHER GROUPS made up
of students, ranging from YM
and YWCA's and denominational
church groups to radical political
groups such as AYD and Young
Communists! In short, no special
interest groups may become mem
bers. Delegates to all conference and
conventions regional and na
tional must be chosen either by
a campus's student governing body
or by an all-campus election. Na
tional officers and administrators
in turn are" chosen from these
delegates. If student voters and
leaders in student government
are not alert enough to choose
delegates discerningly in a day
when everybody is looking under
pianos and card tables for Com
munists, then no campus election
can guard democratic principles.
Why, we might even elect a Com
munist May Day Queen if we're
not careful.
Forsaking the Communism
scare, our friend held up the
boner, "NSA can't do anything
that local organizations don't al
ready do." And this of course is
the crux of the whole issue. Can
NSA benefit our campus, and if
so, how? The ramifications of the
answer are too many to present
in one short column, but thfs
writer would like to make two
points.
First, that the benefits for stud
ents will be primarily indirect.
That is, as a federation of stud
ent governing bodies, NSA can
provide a centralized source for
the interchange of ideas, meth
ods and projects between one
campus's student council and
another's not only on brJad sub
jects that require long-range
planning (such as the elimina
tion of racial discrimination's
many manifestations), but also on
countless other matters substan
tially less momentous but never
theless of particular interest to
students, yet matters on which it
would be physically impractical,
if not impossible, to compile in
formation as to how other col
leges met the situation.
Its possibilities, which cannot
be enumerated in this space, are
infinite. Our Student Council, for
example, would have a tremen
dously greater chance of per
suading the administration to ac
cept a new project if the Council
could present evidence that 17 or
29 or 54 or 104 other campuses
had taken similar action.
The second point is that NSA
offers to the students of America,
as such, a medium to voice their
collective opinions to educators,
legislators and others interested
in student affairs.
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