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Friday, September 20, 1963
EDITORS NOTE I The following itor
Was taken from the first fall 1mu of
the Colorado Dally became of past Intercut
on the University campus in the Natloal
Student Association (NSA). The Univer.
slty Is not a member of the organization
nd sent no representatives to its sjinual
convention in Bloomington, Ind., this
ummer.
By Paul Danish
Colorado Dally Editor .
. Major constitutional revi
sions aimed at refuting grow
ing criticism of the National
Student Association (NSA)
and strong support for student
civil rights action marked the
16th annual National Student
Congress this summer.
The Congress, meeting at
the University of Indiana in
Bloomington, revised the NSA
constitution abolishing the or
ganization's national execu
tive committee and replacing
it with a more representative
body; created four new ad
ministrative regions encom
passing all of the old regions;
created the post of student
government vice-president;
and most significantly, abol
ished the practice of referring
legislation not considered dur
ing the congress to the
National Executive Commit
tee (NEC) for action.
The practice of referral
probably accounted for more
adverse criticism of NSA than
any other single policy of
the Association. Conservative
groups particularly the
Young Americans for Free
domhad charged that the
NEC consistently took stands
much more liberal than those
College
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bring its cheating scandal
at some major university.
But today's favorite type
filching exam questions
from a professor's office
before exam time often
seems to stem more from
pranksterism than from a
fear of failing.
Students for the most
part do not sanction
cheating, and schools deal
severely with it. ,
A Harvard grauate has
jested that murder might
not be grounds of expul
sion, but a young man
caught cheating would
probably be thrown out
and his name expunged
from the Harvard records
forever.
As keepers of the cam
pus morals college admin
istrations fall roughly into
three categories those
who consider themselves
in loco parentis, or sub
stitute parents, those who
consider theuselves to be
dealing with young adults
who need minimal super
vision, and those some
where between.
Studying campuses all
over the country, the not
ed educational writer and
professor, David Boroff,
foand and regretted
strenuously that most
schools fall into the first
category. Boroff called
them "adolescent reser
ervations, fenced off from
serious adult concerns."
"At least the hell
raisers (of the twen
ties)," Boroff said, "were
autonomous. Their infan
tilism wasn't sponsored
by the administration,
which these days lays
down the ground rules and
acts as umpire for nur- .
sery games."
Another writer looking
into paternalism on col
lege campuses recently
found students and school
administrators talking
about the beginning of a
student movement decry
ing the "in loco parentis"
idea and demanding more
student freedom and re
sponsibility. At that time Warner
Wick, dean of students
and professor of philos
ophy in the University
of Chicago, called the
movement "good and res
ponsible," but one "which
has to be watched so it
doesn't get out of hand.
"In many parts of the
United States, college has
been just a continuation
of high school," said
KOSMET
KLUB
MEETING
There will be a meeting for
all Kosmet Hub members
Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 5:00
p.m. in room S48 of the
of the congress as a whole.
Under the new provision,
legislation not acted upon will
die.
The old 28-member NEC
has been revamped into a
more compact 10-man body
Morals
Wick, "and the quicker
we get over this the bet
ter." Meanwhile, administra
tions, with few excep
tions, do not admit pub
licly to moral dalliance
on their own campuses.
When it breaks into the
open through some public
incident, administrators
tend to close their ranks
and shut their mouths.
The theory is that bad
publicity is bad for the
university bank book, bad
for alumni relations, and
bad for the blood pressure
of the board of trustees.
. Reprinted from
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dubbed the National Supervi
sory Board. Besides its small
er size, the National Supervi
sory Board differs from its
predecessor in that its dele
gates are elected by the four
new national regions t h e
Northeast, Midwest, the Far
West, and the South. The old
NEC was made up of the
chairmen of each of the re
gions. The creation of the four
"super-regions" does not
mean the end of the old re
gional system, however. The
older regional organizations
will continue to operate with
in the newer ones.
The other over-riding issue
at the NSA was student in
volvement in the civil rights
movement A resolution sup
porting the Washington march
and sending a three member
delegation to represent the as
sociation in it passed by a 6-1
margin.
In addition the NSA voted to
collect food, clothing and
funds to aid the Student Non-
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remote Students
Violent Coordinating Commit
tee (SNCC), the Northern Stu
dent. Movement, and other
civil rights organizations. It
also moved to secure funds
for a voter registration proj
ect in the summer of 1964.
A special project was estab
lished for Prince Edward
County, Va., where the
schools were closed in 1959 to
avoid desegregation. The NSA
established a summer tutorial
program for the County's chil
dren and moved to secure
qualified graduates to serve
in it.
The most dramatic civil
rights resolution was one de
manding immediate action by
the Justice Department to se
cure the release of three stu
dents arrested in Americus,
Ga., on charges of "inciting to
insurrection," a charge which
carries a possible death pen
alty in Georgia.
The students who were par
ticipating in a non-violent
demonstration at the time of
their arrest, were reported to
have suffered "multiple bru
talities" at the hands of the
police since their arrest on
.Tniv 19 This included beat
ings and evidence that they
had been burned wun came
prodders.
The NSA also went on rec
ord in support of time limits
the desegregation of pub
lic schools, withdrawal of aid
from segregated school dis
tricts, establishment of a Fed
ppal Fair Employment Prac
tices Commission, prohibition
of discrimination in labor un
ions, and ending of abuses of
the urban renewal laws.
Other NSA action included
a resolution on civil liberties
and national security affirm
ing the Drinciole that "in time
of relative peace, . . . that the
free and unlettered exercise
of the civil liberties of thought,
speech, press, and worship
cannot be in conflict with na
tional security," and charging
that "in its efforts to identify
and punish subversive ele
ments within the population,
American governmental
agencies have sometimes en
gaged in practices unwortny
of a free democracy."
A resolution delineating spe
cific violations of academic
freedom referred to last fall's
firing of the editor of the "Colo
rado Daily" and the political
controversy surrounding it.
The resolution stated that "in
stances of journalistic indis
cretion on the part of the Ed
itor of the Colorado Daily of
the University of Colorado
were used by several political
pressure groups and numerous
state and national politicians
to inject the University into
the election campaign as a po
litical issue."
Other NSA action includes:
Elected Greg Gallo of the
University of Wisconsin as
next year's president.
A resolution affirming the
student's right to procedural
and substantive due process in
university discipline cases and
asserting that "no contract-
urai agreement with a univer
sity should abrogate a stu
dent's right to due process."
Condemnations of condi
tions of oppression in Eastern
Europe, Spain and Portugal.
J-School Gets
Curriculum To
The relocation of the School
of Journalism to its new facili
ties in Nebraska Hall will en
able the School to enlarge its
curriculum, according to Dr.
William Hall, director of the
school.
Overcrowded conditions in
Burnett Hall, increasing en
rollment, and an expanding
program have made the move
necessary. The school will
have about 75 per cent more
floor space in Nebraska Hall
than was available in Burnett.
The addition of a new broad
casting lab will give students
an opportunity to study news,
writing, advertising, produc
t i o n, and management.
"Where the old facilities con
fined us to reporting news,"
said Dr. Hall, "we now have
a program designed to give
the student an understanding
of all phases of broadcasting
with the exception of engineer
ing." The new photography lab,
which features a central dark
room with individual print
drying and negative process
ing rooms accommodates
more students than the indi
vidual dark rooms used in
Burnett Hall.
Other additions are a radio
TV lab and an advertising lab.
There is space for movie film
and film editing labs, which
will be equipped later.
Equipment for the school is
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Establishment of a fund
to' aid students fleeing oppres
sion in Angola and the Repub
lic of South Africa. ' "
A resolution suporting the
formation of a National Serv
ice Corps patterned after, the
Peace Corps for service in
American depresed areas.
Support of tuition-free pub
lic higher education in state
supported universities on the
grounds that in a democratic
society "The criteria of edu
cational opportunity . . . must
be the individual's . . . aca
demic ability and desire to ob
tain an education, rather than
economic status."
A resolution condemning
the suppression of South Viet
namese students and request
ing that the United States "re
view" its aid policies to the
Diem government. The reso
lution expresses NSA's "soli
darity with the Vietnamese
students and people in their
struggle against both internal
and external oppression."
New Home,
Be Enlarqed
being added and replaced as
funds allow. By 1964, accord
ing to Dr. Hall, the Universi
ty will have one of the finest
journalism schools in the na
tion, and by 1968 the School
will have facilities for 300 stu
dents. Enrollment in 1962 was
153.
"We start the year with un
doubtedly the strongest facul
ty in the 40 year history of
the School of Journalism," Dr.
Hall said. Arter two
months of walking back and
forth between the Social Sci
ences Building and Nebraska
Hall, our students should be
able to pass any physical fit
ness test that President Ken
nedy can recommend."
Guide Dog Firm
Issues Warning
The Guide Dog Foundation
for the Blind has issued a
warning against organizations
participating in certain pro
jects which claim to help give
blind persons free guide dogs.
The organization said that
on many campuses various
fraternal groups collect cer
tain articles thinking that if
they are sent to a guide dog
organization, a blind person
would be given a guide dog.
It urges groups wishing to
help finance guide dogs for
the blind to write to Guide
Dog Foundation for the Blind
Inc., 71-11 Austin St., Forrest
Hills 75, N.Y.
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