NDEA Revisited

When Senators Kennedy and Clark failed last summer in their effort to repeal the loyalty provision of the National Defense Education Act, their opponents used the lack of serious student protest as an important argument against repeal. Since then, both Kennedy and Clark have said that they will carry on the fight in the current session of Congress, and have called upon college students to aid by writing to their Congressmen, urging repeal.

The formation of a student-faculty committee to press for repeal of the disclaimer affidavit and to encourage and process student letters to Washington on the issue is a promising but long overdue sign of student interest. The new committee is to be commended for its initiative, and hopefully, it will meet with an enthusiastic response.