N.S.A. Return Favored By Summer Observers

The eight Harvard observers who attended this summer's National Student Association convention unanimously favor the College's rejoining N.S.A.

This group, in a report now being prepared, will give the Student Council reasons for its recommendations, and the Council will in turn debate the N.S.A. issue this fall. Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61, chairman of the group, said it had met twice since the convention and would draft its report within two weeks.

In 1958, the Student Council with drew Harvard College's representation in N.S.A., but at the same time urged future Councils to send observers to the annual legislative meetings of the N.S.A., the National Student Congress.

Since the eight students who went to the convention form a regular Student Council committee, it is assumed the question of the College's membership in N.S.A. will come up when the committee reports to the full Council.

Oliver said his committee would tell the Council why it favors returning to N.S.A. and would present a motion to rejoin, which the Council could either accept or reject.

Referendum Deemed Likely

Council President Edward L. Croman '60 said a college-wide referendum on rejoining, similar to the one which followed last year's Council decision to withdraw, is a good possibility. Croman said such a referendum could come subsequent to or as a part of any future Student Council action.

Without giving any specific details, Oliver said the observers' desire to return to N.S.A. is based on what they saw at this summer's convention.

The eight students who went to the meeting are: James M. Bardeen '60, Croman, Eldon J. Eisenach '60, Otto B. Gerlach '61, Stephen S. Graham '60, Ted W. Margadant '62, Oliver, Council Treasurer, and Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61, Council vice-president.

The five observers not on the Student Council were chosen, after application, as other Council committee members are picked, except that each had to agree to pay his own way.

At the ten-day convention, N.S.A. delegates studied numerous issues, then passed 14 resolutions which formed the program for the national officers to implement the following year.