Smith Joins NDEA

Smith College has announced that it will rejoin the loan program of the National Defense Education Act. At the same time the faculty protested amendments to the act which permit the Commissioner of Education to refuse or revoke an award when it is "in the best interest of the United States" to do so, and which require applicants to report past crimes as well as membership in the Communist Party.

Smith was one of 31 colleges to withdraw from the program in 1959 in protest of a recently repealed provision requiring an applicant to file an affidavit that "he does not believe in, he is not a member of, and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government."