NS A Delegate Candidate Statements
Monday and Tuesday students will go to the polls to
elect five delegates to represent the University at the
National Student Association summer congress in
Bloomington, Indiana. Eight candidates are seeking the
positions. The Emerald presents here the statements
of each candidate.
We hope students will read these statements carefully
and cast their ballots for the five candidates who will
capably meet the responsibility which they owe to the
student mandate which affiliated the ASUO with NSA.
The University needs candidate who will provide strong
leadership at the national congress and in setting up
the local organization next fall. Observers at the sum
mer congress will not be of much benefit to the Univer
sity. What we need are participants. The Emerald
urges students to cast their ballots for qualified candi
dates.
Hank Courtney
I am opposed to membership of the University of
Oregon in NSA. However, since the University has voted
to join NSA, I would like to become a delegate to the
NSA convention this summer and present my findings
to the student body next year for their consideration.
Mike Ellmaker
NSA is our investment. It will be student initiative
(exercised through effective participation at regional
and national congresses, and through implimentation
of practicable NSA programs on campus) that will
make our membership profitable.
There are two areas which are of particular concern
to me in NSA—present institutional aspects of the asso
ciation (international relations, the southern program,
civil liberties, higher education), and those programs
and activities designed to materially benefit the campus.
IN ORDER for NSA to be profitable, meaningful on
campus activity and programs of a contributive nature
must result out of an effective carry-over from congress
to campus. This carry-over is the delegates responsibili
ty. I would meet this responsibility by:
1. Conducting public forums on national and inter
national issues pertinent to our present campus situa
tion (in loco parentis, rising costs of higher education,
academic freedom).
2. MAKING worthwhile reports to committees under
student government jurisdiction (migratory labor com
mittee, higher education committee, Mexico Project).
3. Taking advantage of such available benefits as the
NSA Central Filing System, University Press Service,
Foreign Student Leadership Fund and NSA publica
tion such as the National Student News.
Right now, my major concern is for the probable
number of voters on this issue. When the six delegates
return from Indiana, our work will have just begun. It
will take a certain amount of effort on our part to make
NSA successful—let’s begin to accept the responsibili
ties that lie ahead by voteing on May 27. Let’s voice our
opinions now—1,500,000 other students have!
Mike Gannon
The National Student Association is a forward look
ing organization: however, I feel NSA must become a
forward moving organization in order to achieve its
goals. Past NSA Congresses have made resolutions
favoring everything from the establishment of a Do
mestic Peace Corps to higher education for the deaf.
These resolution are adequate for forming NSA’s basic
policy, but something else must be added to give drive
to the organization.
Our delegation must arrive in Indiana with specific
programs to propose at the Congress. We must do more
than approve resolutions. For instance .rather than ap
proving a resolution which requests the formation of a
youth service corps, we should form a youth service
corps and seek adequate funds to operate it within the
structure of NSA. In order to do this our delegation
must be prepared.
ALREADY NSA has supported an experimental pro
gram in Minnesota in which college students worked
with Indian children on their reservations. College stu
dents at Rutgers University have worked to eliminate
the migratory labor problem in New Jersey. Migratory
labor, slums, and juvenile dilenquency arc a few of
many problems confronting our nation. As college stu
dents we ought to work together in a national body to
seek solutions to these problems.
AS CHAIRMAN for the ASUO Migratory Labor Com
mittee, I have done research on the agricultural migrant
problems. I would like to propose a program of student
activity to aid migratory laborers. Even though such a
program may not be adopted at the NSA Congress, I
will work to get some program established in which
students can fight successfully against poverty, illitera
cy, and inequality.
To me NSA should mean concrete programs similar
to the one sponsored by the University of Minnesota
on an Indian reservation. With student support the
ASUO Migratory Labor Committe has made encourag
ing progress this year. Yet we must realibc that this is
just one committee on only one campus trying to fight
a national problem. In order to succeed we must be
come a national group of college students working to
gether to achieve our goals.
I would like to represent the University of Oregon
at the National Student Congress so that 1 might per
suade others to join with us to combat social problems.
I believe that through NSA and I believe we can make
progress and reach these goals.
Howard Liebreich
NSA at Oregon is doomed unless intelligent voters
elect students interested and qualified in both repre
senting them at the National Congress and in struc
turing NSA on our campus.
It is imperative that students who are willing to work
for the student body be elected, not merely students
interested in finding out what NSA will do for us. It is
important to remember that NSA does not do anything
for us, but that we derive benefits by working through
NSA.
TWO WEEKS AGO at the Regional Congress in Se
attle, I was elected to a vice-presidential position as
Regional Education Chairman. So far I have received
requests from three sources to do work in the area of
education in the Northwest.
Through work on the Higher Education Committee
in research I have gained an insight into the problems
of education and the vast space which must be filled.
I feel being elected to represent Oregon will enable
me to work more efficiently with the region and on
campus to promote educational research and applica
tion of education in needed areas. It will also enable me
to gain ideas of the problems and programs of other
NSA member schools throughout the country.
PROBABLY THE most important problem facing
NSA here is organizing and structuring it pragmatic
ally. I believe NSA should be divided into four areas—
national affairs, international affairs, educational af
fairs, educational travel.
Through these areas programs should be coordinated
with IEC, the Migratory Labor, Mexico Project, Higher
Education and Civil Rights Committees, People to Peo
ple and other programs already established.
It should be the purpose of the NSA committee to
bring to this campus new ideas and programs, to edu
cate and interest the students in these programs
through the classroom, majors and special interests,
and to represent the opinion of the students of the Uni
versity of Oregon whenever possible.
Pam Pashkowski
We, as students, have the undeniable responsibility to
constantly seek understanding of the world around us.
No outside pressure can force an individual to see re
lationships among the facts and concepts he learns in
class and observations he makes of his experiences.
However, I believe that an enthusiastic atmosphere of
investigation of all facets of life is contagious and can
motivate a student toward becoming “an attentive and
THE UNIVERSTITY of Oregon hak begun to develop
an atmosphere conducive to learning, and I think our
association with USNSA will help us continue in this
direction. The formal procedings of the Congress and
the informal associations with other students will give
our entire delegation new techniques for stimulating
student interest in national and international affairs.
I HAVE ASKED you to select me as one of your
NSA delegates because I would like to learn from and
evaluate the National Student Congress this summer
and contribute to the formation of an effective NSA
organization on our campus. I am especially concerned
with incresing meaningful relationships with our ex
change students, evaluating our class service honorar
ies, and promoting the exchange of ideas among U of O
students.
The fact that I am interested in the three areas ex
phasized above and that we now belong to NSA will
not produce miracles. The benefits you receive from
NSA clearly depend upon the capabilities and determi
nation of your delegates. If you think that my attitude
toward NSA and the University of Oregon can accom
plish something for you as a student, I ask for your
vote.
Jerry Rust
NSA is on trial. There are two obligations to be met.
First we must throw our wholehearted support behind
NSA; install programs and set up committees At the
same time we must ask questions and seek to answer
them. Why have so many schools dropped out of NSA?
Why can’t we get the same benefits from our present
structure of student government? Why is it necessary to
take a stand on national and international issues? 1 be
lieve we must look at NSA and make an evaluation of
it. More than anything I want to find out the truth
about NSA. As I have said before I am optimistic. I
would suggest that an exchange of ideas between cam
puses, and a greater student awareness are the two
things NSA has to offer.
I offer these programs as suggestions of what NSA
can do for us:
1.) Fine art exchanges between universities of the
Northwest.
2) A STUDENT tutoring program
3) Put national issues (such as HUAC) on the gen
eral election ballots so our NSA delegates can better
represent student opinion, and also to stimulate student
awareness.
4) Investigate such things as Indian reservation con
ditions and education of children of migratory workers.
5) Set up the low-cost European tour program avail
able under NSA.
Judie Scrivner
The University of Oregon has already become a mem
ber of United States National Student Association I
believe the problem we are confronted with now is in
forming the students as to the polices and philosophy of
the organization, thus making them more aware of the
importance of NSA on the local, national, and interna
tional level.
Recently, many students have asked “Just exactly
what can NSA do for me? My answer is this: NSA can
accomplish many things only if you are interested
enough to contribute your ideas—whether you arc ne
cessarily for the organization or not; for NSA has to
represent student opinions on our campus if it is to
survive.
THE ISSUE I am extremely concerned with is the
problem of in loco parentis. I believe that if a student
is to develop his talents to the greatest extent, he must
not be hindered or stifled in any way by a parental ad
ministration.
Responsibility and freedom of choice must not be
removed from the student or immaturity and disinter
est will be reinforced. To increase the critical talents
of the student, I would like to organize an open forum
through NSA Right now we have a free speech plat
form which is infrequently used.
MY PLAN would be to schedule a time for free
speeches, have it advertised, and allow anyone to speak,
whether they differ from us politically, culturally, reli
giously, or racially; for a student can not make accurate
judgments unless he is able to dicipher for himself on
controversial issues.
I urge you to vote on Monday, May 27, to give me
your support and vote remember JUDIE SCRIVNER
FOR NSA DELEGATE!
V
Warren Wotton
I am skeptical of the N.S.A. and 1 want to be a dele
gate to the convention this summer to see if N.S.A. can
do anything positive for Oregon. Concerning N.S.A. I’m
from Missouri, and they’ve got to SHOW ME!