PAGE TWO Results Mean Support Ins NSA worth it 1 Blood, sweat, tears and, last but not least, money have been spent on NSA in its first year of existence in Pennsyl vania. To the student body as a whole, the money is by far the most important factor and the oft-repeated question of what are we getting for our money may be difficult to answer. In order to answer this and other similar questions NSA must have a concrete program of action for the coming year, lest it become another organization with high-sound ing purposes and no backbone. The framework and func tions of NSA are much too valuable to allow them to be lost in high-powered theory. Justification of our existence as the official American student organization can result only from tangible results is this coming year. The fight against racial discrimination sad the active support for the increase in veteran subsis tence were outstanding examples in the past. The strengthening of student governments, cultural activities, Co-ops, professor ratings, travel tours and em pkirnent bureaus are good examples of the type of program NSA can undertake to prove to the student bodies that it is their true representative and deserves their earnest support. Support will be proportional to results. Results are the responsibility of this convention. Communists in NSA? Possibility of Communist influence and control in the National Student Association has been a red-hot issue ever since the Constitutional Convention last September. Because of Communist alertness and activity, many organizations realize the danger of infiltration. NSA, with its growing membership and mounting prestige, is a juicy target for their activities. The surest way to allow these fears to become realities is to fail to participate in NSA because of such possibilities. Apathy leaves the way clear for any group actively seeking control. NSA has been completely recognized as the sole Ameri can student organization having a seat on the American Commission of UNESCO, and has received valuable State Department assistance in the arrangement of foreign tours. As students voting for delegates, or as delegates repre senting their student bodies, everyone can contribute to the goal of maintaining NSA as a representative, not a distor tion, of American student opinion. NSA Can Aid Cultural Programs One of the needs of the average college student in Pennsylvania is that of more intercollegiate cultural activi ttids. ,Few of our colleges are able to support all of the activities which should be included in a cultural program of lectures, forums, concerts, debate tours and plays. However, what cannot be done as individual colleges c be done as PRUSNSA. Each institution probably has an activity such as a glee club. a dramatic society, or a debate team of which it is justifiably proud. Why not share these groups with other schools? Surely if your glee club is the "best in the state," other universities would enjoy a concert. too. Cultural work is good for the members and good for NSA. Students need more and better cultural activities. It is the duty of the Cultural Activities Workshop to draw up a program of which Pennsylvania colleges can be proud. —Jane Fouracre, Chairman, Penn State Chapter The Gang's at ' k k R & D's r v pF• Let's Go! Noon Meals from 11:30 to 2 P.M. Sandwiches Fountain Service REA & DERICK 121 S. ALLEN ST. —by Robert Troxell, Regional Vice President —by Ralph Smith, Regional Publicity Director THE SUMMER COIJ.EGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA AR meetings of PRUSNA will be held in Osmond Laboratory, located half way between Old Main and Shortlidge road on the north side of Pollock road. PLENARY Session, 119 Os mond, 6:30 p.m. SUB - REGIONAL Meetings. East, 110 Osmond; Central, 109 Osmond; West, 112 Osmond. NATIONAL Workshops, 9:30 a. m.; Student Government, 110 Os mond; Interracial Relations, 112 Osmond; Cultural Activities, 105 Osmond; Student Welfare, 106 Osmond. INTERNATIONAL Workshops 1:30. Foreign Student Welfare, 105 Osmond; Student Travel and Exchange, 106 Osmond. PLENARY Session, 119 Os mond, 6:45 p.m. DANCE, TUB, 10 p.m. Saturday, June 12 PLENARY Sessions, 119 Os mond, 9:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. Summer Collegian Editor Business Manager Lew Stone Bob Templeton Editorial Staff: Lou Bell, Allan ()star, Jane Schwing. KEEP COOL ! CALL Centre Beverage Company 2462 SOFT DRINKS CANADA DRY IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Not Here, Thank God! "I'm sorry, son, but you'll have to wait until we check your race and religion." —Courtesy American Institute for Democracy AGENDA Thursday, June 10 Friday, June 11 At the Movies Thursday, June 10 CATHAUM—Are You with It? NITTANY—Good News. STATE—Casbah. Friday, June 11 CATHAUM—Give My Regards to Broadway. NITTANY—Good News. STATE—Casbah. Saturday, June 12 CATHAUM—Give My Regards to Broadway. NlTTANY—Deadline. STATE—Wallflower. SUMMER COLLEGIAN . SUBSCRIBE NOW To The 1948 Penn State Summer Collegian. Six Regular Weekly Issues. NAME STREET CITY STATE _ ENCLOSE 40 CENTS SEND TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT, COLLEGIAN OFFICE, CAMPUS THURSDAY. JUNE It 1948 150 Delegates— (Continued from page one) tory practices in Pennsylvania colleges and methods for elimi nation of such practices will be discussed in the interracial rela tions workshop. Another group will consider cultural activities, including an intercollegiate music festival, a drama festival, traveling drama groups, art exhibitions, lecture tours and debating tours for NSA colleges. A workshop on student welfare will study personal prob lems counselling, student unions, student cooperatives, educational and vocational guidance services, employment se r vice s, course critiques and the newly organ ized Citizenship Clearing House. International Workshops Attention will be focused on the international scene tomorrow afternoon. Delegates will discuss relief drives, scholarships and hospitality arrangements for for eign students and the establish ment of international houses, in the for ei g n student welfare workshop. The agenda. for the student travel and exchange workshop includes improvement and expansion of NSA's foreign travel and study tours, a foreign lecture series, and the work of the International Correspondence Committee. Reports of the workshops and of special committees on ways and means, constitutional changes, policy, and nominations will be considered in plenary sessions Saturday. The conven tion will close with the election of officers for 1948-1949. Newly elected officers will meet with the outgoing executives in a leadership workshop on Sunday to discuss practical problems of their work. Mclanahan's 124 S. ALLEN ST
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