Word: madison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the final installment of a series on the National Student Association Constitutional Convention by Sollg S. Harrison '48, a College delegate to Madison and a member of the CRIMSON editorial board...
Eight hundred delegates at Madison, speaking officially for schools attended by over one million American students, tested in microcosm a nation's state of union. Theirs was the diversity of their elders and theirs was the chance to show whether isolationism and prejudice will hamstring tomorrow's adult generation. Happily compromise won the day on the two big issues--one international and one domestic--which had threatened to send disgruntled delegations home...
...issues big and little that leadership emerges and alignments take shape. At Madison the political jockeying occured quite conspicuously: at virulent odds were the Catholic colleges, representing some 35 percent of the votes, and the Communist-Party-led delegates (from duly-invited front organizations and campuses where those influence elections), representing perhaps 9 percent of the votes. In between stood a centrist liberal 17 percent organized by Don S. Willner '47--national chairman of Students for Democratic Action--to check the aggressive forward positions taken by both extremes. Forty percent of the Convention's strength did not engage in concerted...
...notable first success: UNESCO has awarded NSA a seat on its American commission to speak officially for this country's widely-dispersed millions of youth. Such authoritative recognition for the fledgling body has come only because of the imposing conduct of the young men and women at Madison. They strutted maturity and the best statesmanship of their generation...
...nature of its active personnel that the seeds of NSA's failure--as well as the credit for its current good behavior--are lurking without shame. For the student body representatives at the Chicago and Madison meetings have been almost exclusively leaders of student governments and editors of campus publications. If they have not met this description they have surely occupied a previous niche in other existent extracurricular activities. What confronia NSA now is a situation in which the great majority of its non-professional officers on the regional and campus levels have a first love outside the National Student...