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S haul Chosen NSA President
In Election of New Officers
NSA MEETING:
Delegates Analyze Issues
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Dennis Shaul of Notre Dame
University was overwhelmingly
elected president of the United
States National Student Associa-
tion at the 15th National Student
Congress at the Ohio State Uni-
versity this summer.
Other newly elected officers in-
clude Tim Manring of the Uni-
versity of Washington, National
Affairs Vice President, Don Smith
of the University of Texas, Inter-
national Affairs Vice President
and Steve Brockbank of the Uni-
versity of Utah and Richard Yea-
ger of Loyola University of the
South. Program Vice Presidents.
campuses and be able to make the
NSA affiliation a beneficial one."
After two ballots, Tim Manring
was elected National Affairs Vice
President over Renard Davis of
Oberlin College. Manring was stu-
dent body president at the Uni-
versity of Washington, attended
the 10th International Student
Relations Seminar and was active
as a regional program chairman.
Must Organize
The NAVP as Manring sees him
must "organize and develop ideas
and plans which will involve stu-
dents in the issues of higher edu-
cation, civil rights and civil lib-
erties, community involvement
and cultural affairs."
He desired to see programs on
civil rights in both the north and
south. "The Association should in-
volve students in work in slums
and areas of heavy minority group
concentration, working with young
people, changing attitudes and in-
creasing reading habits and abili-
ties," Manring said.
Don Smith defeated Robert
Backoff of the University of Illi-
nois for the International Affairs
Vice Presidency. Smith, who had
served as a Program Vice Presi-
dent two years ago, was eager to
try a new approach in interna-
tional student relations.
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directly or indirectly by any Com-
munist controlled government."
Opposition to the amendment
was grounded on the principle that
"any act of restricting, suppress-
ing or censoring the flow of any
material for political reasons in-
terferes with the citizen's right of
free access to information and
with academic freedom and places
in jeopardy the foundations of an
informed democratic society."
HUAC, the major issue of debate
at the 14th NSA Congress flared
up briefly at this year's session.
The 14th Congress called for the
abolition of the committee and the
15th was asked to support a mo-
tion mandating the national offi-
cers to initiate a petition to the
House of Representatives asking
abolition. The amended motion
which passed the plenary by a
show of hands substituted "to sup-
port renewed effort to abolish the
committee" for the petition re-
quest.
Judie Rules
The basic policy declaration on
procedural and substantive due
process delineates the minimum
requirements the congress thought
necessary for a just and fair pro-
cedure in adjucating alleged in-
fractions of university rules by
students.
Assembly Association President
Mary Beth Norton, '64, contributed
major efforts to the framing of
the declaration which calls upon
universities to establish student-
faculty judicial councils to hear
cases which might result in dis-
missals or expulsions.
It asks for a clear statement
of regulations, what constitutes
violations of them and what pen-
alties could be imposed. It also
asserts the student's right to offer
testimony, to call witnesses, to
have choice of counsel, to be tried
by an impartial body and given
access to all relevant testimony,
including that of his accusers,
Due Process
In the section on substantive due
process, the declaration asserts
that regulations should not in-
fringe upon student rights to par-
ticipate in controversial . action
groups, to express opinions and to
pursue knowledge through "free
and open inquiry."
International student action held
a prominent spot in the congress.
The International Student Con-
ference in Quebec, the Interna-
tional Union of Students meeting
in Leningrad and the World Youth
Festival for Peace and Friendship
staged in Helsinki intensified dele-
gate concern with this area.
Heading the priority list of res-
olutions" considered by the con-
gress was a motion on Algeria
congratulating the students of
that nation for "the courageous
role they played, often at great
risk, in contributing to the strug-
gle for independence waged by the
Algerian people."
Cite UGEMA
The motion singled out the na-
tional student union of Algeria, the
Union General des Etudiants Mus-
ulmans Algeriens for its role in
the fight for independence and
pledged cooperation and support
for the Algerian students. A drive
to collect books for the University
of Algiers was initiated.
The coqgress also approved a
basic policy declaration on condi-
tions of oppression condemning
colonialism, imperialism, dictator-
ship, totalitarianism, discrimina-
tion and economic deprivation,
with special reference to their ef-
fect on the student.
Representatives from several
national unions of students in at-
tendance at the congress addressed
the delgeates, including an officer
of the Zengakuren, a Japanese
student organization.
Beyond Opinion
NSA President Edward Garvey
opened the congress with an ad-
dress urging the delegates to go
beyond statements of opinion. "We
have reached a stage in our de-
velopment where the mere adop-
tion of resolutions is simply not
enough. It is now necessary that
these resolutions be coherent and
complete and that they point to
methods of real solution," he said,
"We must begin to ask ourselves
what our necessary moral re-
sponse must be in respect to our
necessarily moral politic policies."
To implement this suggestion,
the congress adopted two separate
calendars of legislation. The first
was devoted to program mandates
directed toward setting up proj-
ects, conferences and other pro-
grams to- implement NSA policy.
The second dealt with the more
controversial resolutions on new
policyr stands.
In previous congresses, the plen-
ary sessions have had time to han-
dle only a handful of the scores
of motionsadopted by its legisla-
tive committees, and program
mandates were seldom given high
enough priority to be discussed by
all the assembled delegates.
Refer to NEC
With the two calendars, the con-
gress was able to take action on
27 separate items. They referred
another 70 items for action to the
35 member National Executive
Committee. The NEC is made up of
representatives from the 22 geo-
graphical regions into which the
NSA is divided.
Turning inwardly to its own
structure, the NSA adopted a con-
stitutional amendment which stat-
ed that membership in the asso-
ciation "should not necessarily be
interpreted to imply agreement
with policies of the National Stu-
dent Congress, the National Exec-
utive Committee or actions of its
elected officers; however, member
student governments should make
every effort to participate In the
decision making processes of the
NSA and support its policies and
programs to the extent of their
agreement with them."
Passage of the motion was con-
sidered a conservative victory; lib-
eral delegates argued against it,
claiming that this was implicit in
the nature of membership and had
always been NSA policy and thus
unnecessary andthat such a "dis-
claimer" was a negative and de-
feating statement and thus harm-
ful to the association.
Conservative Low
Conservative delegates applaud-
ed the addition, claiming that NSA
is unrepresentative and that lo-
cal member student governments
should not be held responsible for
views which they might not share.
Conservative activity was low in
comparison to the 14th Congress
where the Young Americans for
Freedom joined forces with stu-
dent groups desiring NSA reforms
and tried to temper or defeat the
usually liberal legislation adopted
by congresses. Their efforts were
largely repulsed in 1961 and ro
organized right wing group made
major efforts to influence legis-
lation this August.
An ad hoc Conservative Confer-
ence sprang up during the con-
gress to promote discussion and
legislation, but its moderate lead-
ers dropped out in opposition to
the views of the more extremist
participants, w e a k e n i n g the
group's effectiveness.
400 Schools
NSA is a confederation of 400
student governments at American
colleges and universities which, in
turn, represent 1.5 million stu-
dents. A school's delegation is de-
termined by the size of its student
body.
SGC sent eight delegates and
eight alternates.
NSA SESSION - Four hundred collegiate delegates convened in
sub-committee, committee and plenary sessions to discuss issues
of vital interest to students at the 15th National Student Congress,
the governing body of the United States National Student Asso-
ciation. The NSC was held in Columbus, Ohio.
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