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Taking a spin Su e tm v m n
celebratLes 50years


By Heather Wiggin
Daily Staff Reporter
Last weekend marked the 50th
anniversary of the United States
Students Association - the country's
largest and oldest national student
group.
Past and present student. leaders
joined in Madison, Wisc., the site of
the first American Student Movement
Conference in
1947, to
acknowledge the
organization's Acti
history. cn- th '0s
Ahisvists Con-
vened to cele- +
brate the past ar
successes of
USSA and to
make decisions - -
that will affect USSA or
the future of the g
group.
Annual conferences are the "one
time of year that leaders come togeth-
er in one place," said Dan O'Sullivan,
USSA organizing director. "Activists
from the '60s, '70s and '80s are com-
ing back, so it's really exciting."
- Alumni of USSA include some
well-known politicians such as Hillary
Rodham Clinton, Jesse Jackson,
Gloria Steinem, Gov. Roy Romer (D-
Colo.), and Sen. Tom Hayden (D-
Calif.).
The present goal of USSA is to
make a college education available to
everyone, and to keep affirmative
action in schools, O'Sullivan said.
"Affirmative action needs to be in
place to combat internal racism that
exists right now," O'Sullivan said.
"Institutionalized racism exists in
almost all institutions."
Sue Rasmussen, associate director
of affirmative action, said the

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University uses affirmative action in
admissions and employment deci-
sions.
"Student affirmative action is trying
to undo historical discrimination and
today's discrimination," Rasmussen
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Although the University shares a
few common goals with USSA, the
school has not been affiliated with the
group since
about 1993.
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Is from Hartford, vice
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Affairs, said
coming the Michigan
S t u d e
Assembly
-Dan O'Sullivan d e c i d e s
aniZing director whether the
University will
join USSA.
"(USSA) is very pro-student, and it
keeps (students) alerted to issues, but
the network in the Big Ten is pretty
good too," Hartford said. "It's proba-
bly an individual preference."
Hartford said MSA would have
justify financing a USSA member-
ship. "Our students found that some
things the (USSA) students were lob-
bying for were not good for U of M."
In addition to lobbying for student-
related issues, USSA focuses on
broader national issues. Past USSA
activists have played a role in anti-war
advocacy, national desegregation
demonstrations and other movements
for social change.
USSA focuses on national issues in
addition to lobbying for student-relat-
ed issues.
"We've really been out there orga-
nizing on the major issues that have
faced the country," O'Sullivan said.

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