Vote Yes on NSA
We’ll Never Know What It Can Do
Unless We Vote To Give It a Try
For an entire year, the ASUO Senate has
been divided on membership in NS A. We
believe the best way to end this division
and make a logical decision is to vote to
join NSA so that we can judge it on a trial
basis.
We also feel membership in NSA has a
great deal of potential values for this cam
pus.
Faculty and students who occasionally
stand a few paces away, figuratively speak
ing, and take a long, slow look at the at
mosphere which pervades this campus, in
variably find themselves labeling the Uni
versity “an essentially provincial school.”
Even those who praise our fine faculty will
admit that the average University student
is really not too concerned with much other
than his own little world of the Student
Union, the dormitory or fraternity, and the
grades he will receive this term.
We think NSA could help eliminate some
of this provincialism. By sending capable
delegates, selected by the entire student
body because of their stands on national
and international issues to the NSA Con
gress, the significance of student govern
ment here would increase greatly. And
when these delegates returned, the ex
change of ideas and issues which are impor
tant to students all over the nation could
be transferred back to this campus. No
longer would the University stand aside,
out of the mainstream of American student
life.
Legislation which the NSA Congress
passed last year, for instance, concerned
such issues as federal aid to higher educa
tion, the House Un-American Activities
Committee, nuclear testing, the role of the
federal government in civil rights, the Mc
Carran Act, and many other subjects of
interest and importance to students who
value their role as student citizens.
But more than this, to stay out of NSA
would be to fail in our responsibility in
the society as a whole. NSA is the only
group that really represents students on
the national and international scene. The
small part that students of this Univer
sity should be piaying in the affairs of this
nation and the world should not remain
neglected any longer.
Elsewhere in this paper is a full-page ad
vertisement signed by many students no
longer in student government, sort of the
“old guard.” those who have kept us on our
own small campus for so long.
They will say that NSA costs too much,
that NSA is not structurally perfect. To
us, these arguments are irrelevant when
matched against the stimulation NSA offers
to our student body when matched against
our long-neglected responsibilities in na
tional and international affairs.
Students should join their future student
leaders, both presidential candidates and
ten of the 15 senator-at-large candidates,
in supporting NSA.
These student leaders know that joining
NSA is the only way we can accurately de
termine exactly what it can do for us.
Vote Yes on HU AC Abolishment
y
’■ In the Wednesday election students will
have an opportunity to express in a mild
sort of way their opinion of the controver
sial House Un-American Activities Commit
tee. After several months of work by the
ASUO President’s Civil Rights Committee,
the HUAC resolution is finally on the bal
lot.
The resolution itself reads, “that the
ASUO . . . hereby petitions the U S. House
of Representatives to abolish the House Un
American Activities Committee.” If ap
proved in the election, copies of the reso
lution will be sent to President John F.
Kennedy, the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, and the chairman of the com
ipiittee.
In voting on the proposal, University stu
dents must make a decision in two different
areas. They must first of all decide whether
sending such resolutions in the name of the
entire student body is the proper function
of a University student body. If they do
think such resolutions are a proper func
tion of the student body, then they must
make a decision as to whether the commit
tee should be abolished.
Only if he decides affirmatively on both
aspects of the issue should a student vote in
lavor of the resolution.
We think that the students should vote
for the resolution. In a previous editorial
we commented that consideration of such
issues is very real benefit to the Univer
sity since it helps remind students that they
issues is a very real benefit to the Univer
are not living in a vacuum but are a part
of a larger society as well. Students must
realize that they should be making deci
sions concerning the affairs of the nation
as well as the affairs of the University.
We think that it is the proper function
of any informed group in this country to
express its opinion on any issue, national
or local, which is of concern to the group’s
members. We do hope, however, that when
the result of the resolution is announced,
providing it passes, that it will be pointed
out that this was a majority decision, not
a unanimous one. Those students who vote
against the resolution have a right to be
noticed also, and the actual number of votes
both for and against, should be announced
along w'ith the decision.
We do not think that the passage of the
resolution will have any noticeable effect
on the existence of HUAC, but we hope
that it might do a little bit to encourage
either the abolition of the committee or at
least certain changes in its operation to
bring it more into line with the way in
which we would like to see Congressional
Committees operate.
We do not disagree that it is the prero
gative of Congress to investigate whatever
it wants to, but we also maintain that it is
the right of the people to criticize such in
vestigations when they are conducted in
an improper manner.
Letters to the Editor
For Hosford
Emerald Editor:
i As primary candidates for
Sophomore Class President, we
are very interested and concern
ed with the caliber of the final
1 ists for this office. Next year, the
i Sophomore class must plan and
execute Homecoming on
Thanksgiving weekend. It will
be our job to make it as big a
success as it was this year. It
is important that much planning
and hard work be done between
now and the middle of next fall
term. With this in mind, we feel
that it is imperative to decide
correctly which of the candi
dates is more capable to take
on the responsibilities of the
1963 Homecoming.
The President of the Sopho
more class will be the general
chairman of this event. We feel
that the candidates for this po
sition should have a detailed
knowledge of the organization
and execution of these events.
We would like to see our Home
coming the biggest success ever.
From listening to the views of
the candidates for president, we
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CHINESE WATER. TDRTURE
Some People Who Stand
For Membership in NSA
“I favor membership in USNSA. The organization pro
vides the facility for the orientation of our delegates to
wider concepts of student involvement. Hopefully, this
would prepare them to develop the human resources on
our own campus.”
—Phil Sherburne, candidate for ASL 0 President
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“We must find out about NSA first hand. Observers will
be most effective if they are able to participate and be a
part of the conference. Only by trying NSA in our own
environment will we know what it can do for us and we
can do for it. It is time for action, not second-hand analy
sis.”
—Denny Lynch, candidate for A8UO President
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“By involving students in debate on issues throughout
the year, rather than for only a brief period of two weeks
in the Spring, NSA will benefit every student.”
—Neil Goldschmidt, 1962-63 ASL'O President
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“The United States National Student Association has a
15-year record of outstanding service to the American stu
dent, his campus and his nation. Its contributions to inter
national understanding and cooperation and to improving
the welfare of individual students are vast.”
—The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan
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“The NSA congress was not only a legislative meeting,
but an intensive educational process as well.”
—The Daily Texan, University of Texas
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“USNSA would be a very fine thing for the student gov
ernment of this University to join.”
—University President Arthur S. Flemming
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“The National Student Association has splendidly artic
ulated our national ideas and reflected the vigor of our
college and university young people. The NSA has behind
it years of useful activity and experience. It has made
generous and effective contributions in many areas of
public policy—foreign affairs, civil rights, academic free
dom and international student exchange.”
—President John F. Kennedy
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“I welcome this opportunity to congratulate each of
your members on the splendid work you are doing to ad
vance student aims and to contribute to our American ways
of life.
—Richard M. Nixon, former Vice President
of the United States.
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“The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American
Association of University Professors welcomes the devel
oping program of the National Student Association for
making an informed student opinion effective in Ameri
can higher education and for extending the influence of
free education to other parts of the world.”
—American Association of University Professors