Wednesday, March 7, 1962
The Daily Nebraskan
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Do NSA Policies Remain Within Its Constitution?
Editors Note: This is the
last in a series of depth re
ports on the United State
National Student Associa
tion. It deals with various
criticisms which have aris
en since the association was
originated.
How closely do the poli
cies of the United States
National Student Associa
tion (NSA) follow its pur
poses and procedures as
stipulated within its con
stitution and by-laws?
Article X of the NSA con
stitution, entitled "Partici
pation in Political Affairs,"
stipulates that:
"No body acting on be
half of NSA shall partici
pate in sectarian religious
activities or partisan polit
ical activities; they shall
not take part in activity
which does not affect stu
dents in their role as stu
dents. No substantial part of
the activities of the nation
al and regional bodies of
NSA shall be devoted to
carrying on propaganda or
otherwise attempting to in
fluence legislation."
In the 1961-62 "Codifica-
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tion of Policy," a resolution
passed by the 14th Nation
al Student Congress reads:
"NSA urges that all its
member campuses support
the abolition of the House
on Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC). We
urge the support of such
bills as that of Representa
tive James Roosevelt which
calls for (said) abolition
... by such means as letter-writing
campaigns to
members of the Eighty
Seventh .Congress."
In a concurrent mandate,
the National Affairs Vice
President is directed to
conduct an information
campaign concerning HUAC
and to ("send a copy of this
resolution to every member
of the Eighty-Seventh Con
gress." A declaration on the mat
ter reads "NSA disap
proves of the HUAC on the
grounds that no 'propagan
da' should be restricted in
a democratic society and
that Congressional investi
gation of 'propaganda' can
serve no legislative purpose
which is consistent with the
Constitutional guaran
tee that "Congress shall
make no law . . . abridg
ing the freedom of speech
.
The Declaration also com
mends six specific Repre
sentatives for their "cour
ageous commitment to the
abolition of HUAC.':
In a resolution disapprov
ing loyalty oaths and dis
claimer affidavits passed
by the 13th National Stu
dent Congress, NSA focused
its attention on Section 1001
of the National Defense Ed
ucation Act of 1958 and the
Prouty amendment.
NSA declared its general
opposition to laws requir
ing students to sign loyal
ty oaths and disclaimer af
fidavits. It specifically urged:
Amendment of the act by
deletion of Section 1001 and
the Prouty amendment, and
repeal of municipal and
state laws requiring loyal
ty oaths and disclaimer af
fidavits both as a condition
)ampuA
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STUDENT COUNCIL meet
ing at 4 p.m. in the Pan
American room, Union.
to to to
CAMPUS HANDBOOK
PUBLICATIONS COMMIT
TEE meeting at 7 p.m. in 232
Union. All those interested in
being workers are invited to
attend the meeting.
to to it
ASSOCIATION FOR MED
ICAL TECHNOLOGISTS is
having a meeting at 7 p.m.
in the Union.
to to to
GERMAN CLUB is sponsor
ing an illustrated lecture by
Dr. W. K. Pfeiler, chairman
of the department of German
ic Languages and Literature,
at 7:30 p.m. in Love Memori
al Library auditorium. There
will be no admission charge
to the lecture, entitled "Here
and There in Germany."
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YVVCA PUBLIC AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE AND KFMQ
FM radio station will sponsor
this Sunday's "Equal Time"
broadcast which will have the
"Discussion of the Free
Lunch Program in the Lincoln
Pub'ic Schools" as its topic.
The public is invited to at
tend the live broadcast and
participate in the discussion.
Participants on the 8-9 p.m.
program will be Esther Eisen-
barth, Allen Elliott, Mrs. Wil
liam Brill and Earl Dyer Jr.
Betty Jane Holcomb will mod
erate the program.
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of student employment at
institutions of higher learn
ing, and for faculty mem
bers before they may be
employed at such an insti
tution. The Congress urged re
gions to communicate their
resolutions and opinions to
their congressional and
state legislative representa
tives. In a mandate, the Con
gress directed its national
officers to. "Use all means
permissible to persuade the
U.S. Congress of the im
portance of deleting Sec
tion 1001 and in particular
the Prouty Amendment."
In its passage of resolu
tions and mandates, the
National Student Congress
often takes positions quite
opposite to what individual
members would support,
said Warren Dansken, who
was a member of the Sen
ate at Wesleyan University
when it affiliated with NSA.
The following year, as
president of the Senate, he
himself attended the 1959
Congress.
To present a more per
fect reflection of member
views, many critics of NSA
suggest the inclusion of mi
nority reports (with 20 per
cent approval) and vote tal
lies in the annual "Codifi
cation of Policy."
Currently, noted one crit
ic, all statements appear
as the unanimous opinion
of all students. .
Kay Wonderlic, a former
member of NSA as vice
president of the Student
Senate at Northwestern
University, who now leads
opposition to the associa
tion, is chairman of a nor
ganization composed of
both conservative and liber
al critics of NSA's "inter
nal structive" Students
Committed to Accurate Na
tional Representation.
In addition to advocating
the above changes, the
group also advocates that
"all NSA public statements,
both resolutions and in tes
timony by officials, should
accurately note who is rep
resented by such state
ments. "Presently, even resolu
tions" passed by the 35
member National Execu
tive Committee (NEC) are
prefaced with, 'In order to
present the American stu
dent point of view . ... "
In April, 1961, Howard
Phillips, then president of
the Student Council at Har
vard, termed the NEC a
"power elite" which is "al
lowed to operate without
any checks and balances."
This criticism of the ex
ecutive committee is most
often directed against its
underlying control within
the structure of NSA.
Serving as a steering
committee for the congress,
it sets the priority of in
dividual policy items and
time limits fo rdebate at
each plenary session of the
Congress.
According to Miss Won
derlic in an analysis of
NSA, at the 13th National
Student Congress, 95 resolu
tions came from five com
mittees. "This committee," she
claims, "met for approxi
mately 14 hours, allowing
an average of twenty min
utes for consideration of
each resolution.
Miss Wonderlic continued,
"Only 13 of the 95 resolu
tions presented by the five
committees were considered
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at the plenary session, be
cause of TIME LIMITA
TIONS." She noted that items not
given priority are automat
ically referred to a post
congress session of the Na
tional Executive Commit
tee. Others not voted upon by
the plenary session are re
ferred to this session by
vote of the delegates.
Said Miss Wonderlic,
"Eight y-four resolutions
were sent to the post-congress
NEC meeting, along
with eight program resolu
tions and seven program
mandates a total of 99
items for consideration.
"Of these, 82 were passed
and included in the 1960-61
codification."
She also pointed out that
four resolutions, not re
ferred to the NEC by com
mittee (according to the
priortization given at the
Congress), were passed by
the NEC and included in
the Codification.
"There is no constitution
al authority for the NEC to
do this, nor is such power
granted in the rules of the
congress."
Attempts to determine
how and why NSA has tak
en consistently "liberal"
positions in its years in ex
istence, and how. and why
it has continued to empha
size many of the same
areas is another topic of
much controversy, accord
ing to Miss Wonderlic.
A former NSA president,
Robert Kiley, wrote in 1958,
"If we are to hold to the
thesis that college life con
tributes to the development
of more intelligent citizen
ship, then we must assume
that students SHOULD BE
DIRECTED to a greater so
cial awareness."
A contradiction Arises
in claiming to speak in be
half of "more than a mil
lion students," how can the
group simultaneously speak
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"Resource personnel" and
"background papers (for
congress sessions)" are an
other major topic of con
troversy. The president of the stu
dent body at the University
of Colorado objected to
"biased resource person
nel" at the 13th Congress.
According to comment on
page one of the "Colorado
Daily," Oct. 3, 1960, "a for
eign student from Japan,
said to be Japan's number
two communist, spoke in
favor of the students who
demonstrated against Jap
anese Premier Kishe just
prior to the cancellation of
President Eisenhower's vis
it to Japan."
In a report on the 13th
Congress, Carol Dawson, a
leader in the Young Repub
lican National Federation,
pointed to a resolution en
titled "The Student in the
Total Community."
"In this resolution," wrote
Carol, "they praised the
Japanese students who riot
ed against President Eisen
hower, citing their 'right to
riot' because of social and
economic pressures in Ja
pan." It seems clear, then, that
the goals and purposes of
the National Student Asso
ciation are not the target
under fire.
What is under fire are
the means employed to
achieve these goals.
Is is, then, up to each
student at this University
to determine for himself
whether or not the means
justify the end.
Hours Extended
University coeds will re
ceive "15 minutes after"
closing hours March 15 for
the Limeliters' show.
The show will begin at 8
p.m. at Pershing Municipal
auditorium and tickets will
be sold for $3.00, $2.50 and
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Six coeds are now the proud
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ments were announced.
Pinnlngs
Patricia Arnold from Oma
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Sigma Pi, a senior in Arts
and Sciences from Lincoln.
Sharon Bernstein from Oma
ha to Stan Cohen, Sigma Al
pha Mu, a senior in Arts and
Science.
Carolyn Kars from Kansas
City, Mo. to Harold Novicoff,
Sigma Alpha Mu senior in
Arts and Sciences from Lin
coin.
Shirley Rhinesort from Air
burn to Anson Andrew, Theta
Xi junior in civil engineer
ing from Auburn.
Doris Hoge, Terrace Hall
freshman In Teachers C o 1
lege from Scrlber to Richard
Ivobken, Delta Chi sophomore
Graf Will Head
Ag Union Board
Jay Graf was elected presi
dent of the Ag Union Execu
tive Board last night.
Other new officers Include:
Margarethe Plum, vice-president;
Pat Frazer, secretary;
and Ron Meinke, treasurer.
Graf is president of Alpha
Gamma Rho, secretary of the
University 4-H Club, member
of Corncobs, Alpha Zeta, Ag
science honorary, and the
Block and Bridle Club.
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