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...international issue was the nature of the relationship between NSA and the year-old International Union of Students. From its headquarters in Prague, the I.U.S. had steered a course far closer to the mores and ideologies of students in Soviet-oriented countries than to those of U.S. campuses. But the I.U.S. boasts a constructive service program embracing relief and low-cost travel; only a tiny minority wanted to shy away completely from I.U.S. affiliation. What most delegates looked for--and evolved--was an affiliation scheme which would carry with it complete NSA independence from I.U.S. political activities...
...NSA's three key officers president William Welsh of Kentucky's Beren College; 'Ralph Dungan, vice-president in charge of domestic affairs from St. Joseph's College near Philadelphia; and Robert Smith 1G, international affairs commission head--comprise a neat balance of the divergent interests in America's student community. Coupled with the pattern of political power which produced it, this leadership spells a progressive middle-way for NSA which can win the recognition of hostile administrations and the constitutional ratification of suspicious student electorates...
Unmentored by adult-level leadership in U.S. education, the founding delegates of the new National Student Association have won a 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...
...easy". For effectiveness the stripling organization would have to stress certain limited goals. The domestic affairs commission looks ahead to everything from regional "culturale" festivals to countrywide graduate job placement. The international anticipates greater attention to foreign students to show them America at its best. But the NSA has only two hands, and it's a beginner...