Minority Report Cites Value of NSA Plans, Criticizes Withdrawal

A minority report protesting the Student Council withdrawal from NSA will be circulated today in advance of an all-College referendum on the question to be held tomorrow.

The dissenters protest that "withdrawal as a method of effecting changes in the USNSA was ineffective," and that "the Council rushed through this important subject with unprecedented haste."

Recognizing that "the average Harvard student knows, and therefore cares, little about USNSA," the signers of the minority report describe 17 of the NSA programs, including national and international organizations, exchanges, and scholarship plans.

The opponents of the withdrawal--Richard Barringer '59, Daniel M. Fox '59, Chitranjan Kapur '60, Lawrence B. Ekpebu '60, and Lionel B. Spiro '60--affirm that defects of the program can be corrected within the framework of the organization itself. "For us, this will mean sending a full delegation to the national conferences and increasing our correspondence with NSA," they asserted.

Defects in the NSA are due basically to its size, and could be eliminated through a more adequate system of representation. The group suggested that Harvard students use their ability and influence to build up the NSA, not to destroy it.

In a final plea for student support, the report concludes, "Isolationism--pure or Ivy League style--is a thing of the past."