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Administration of yesterday's balloting for approval or disapproval of NSA was both inefficient and imprudent. No ballots were distributed in Eliot and Leverett Houses. The Union ballot supply was insufficient. And the ballot itself, consisting of one-and-one-half pages of propaganda followed by one-and-one-half lines of actual ballot, could be classified as a manifesto with a sign-on-the-dotted-line addenda. Both the bungled supply and the blatant propaganda have undoubtedly and unfortunately lowered the number of students approving affiliation with NSA. The bungling was merely, if unexcusably, administrative inefficiency. But the propaganda...
Question number two: Why vote for a theoretical set-up--political or non-political--that will effect nobody but its delegates! Answer: Vote for NSA because is may well become the first student organization in the history of the, United States that will touch the majority of individual students. A list of its projected activities include work on student employment, student exchange with foreign countries, and racial discrimination in education...
Question number three: What good is there to an organization that has been speechifying for a year while getting at none of its objectives! Answer: On the national level, NSA's main work will be done through its Regional Offices, which were created only two months ago. On the international level, objectives have been approached. NSA is working with the State Department on implementation of the Fulbright Bill, which will provide European educations for many Americans. Last summer, it was largely responsible for the student ships which carried several thousand students to Europe and back...
Question number four: Who pays for NSA! You do--to the extent of allowing the Student Council to utilize about one twenty-fifth of whatever you donated to the Council Fund. This amounts to $950 of the Council's $25,00 budget, and includes dues, delegate expenses, and the cost of publishing reports...
...together, and you have something that costs each individual little and that might become America's first vital national student organization. In the creation of NSA, Harvard delegates have been notable for their leadership. At this point, it would neither be consistent nor sensible to fail to support NSA...