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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
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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.
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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.
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150 Delegates—
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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.
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