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INDIA ASSOCIATION members meet to co
memorate ths twentieth anniversary of In
dian Independence and discuss the problems
India's Crises Discussed
In Anniversary Celebration
By GENE WANG
The solution to many of
India's problems lies in in
structing the peasants in birth
control and modern agricultural
methods a UNC graduate stu
dent who has just returned from
India feels.
Speaking at the India Associa
tion' commemoration of the 20th
Anniversary of Indian
Independence Tuesday night,
C. U. Rao said the greatest pro
blems facing India today are
population control, food supply
and economic development.
"Recent events in India may
not be encouraging," Rao said,
"but there is optimism for the
future. India has met the
challenges that confront any
new nation."
He said the laborers living in
villages do not recognize the
problem of birth control and its
relation to the food shortage.
In addition, the outmoded
farming methods still in use to
day do not create maximum
yield from the land, Rao said.
The Indian government has
met with little success in getting
the peasants to change farming
methods, but any attempt to
break with tradition takes
time.
Rao said recent famines in
India were highly localized and
concentrated. In addition, the
present situation has been
developing for the last several
years because of the drought
conditions which have been cam
pounded by i n a d e q u a t e ir
rigation. However, there was a good
monsoon season this year, Rao
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said and officials are hopeful for
a better crop yield.
India's industrial future
depends on the solution to the
population and famine crises,
Rao said.
"When the people can create a
demand for goods, industry will
begin to thrive in what has been
an agragian society," he said..
Rao sees as an example the
greater range of goods available
in stores this year than during,
his last visit to India in 1963.
"I believe a foundation has1
been created in the last 20 years;
Myriad Of Topics Discussed
At 20th NSA Congress Now
By JOE SANDERS
COLLEGE PARK, Md. An
almost unlimited number of
topics is being discussed in
both formal and informal sem
inar groups here at the twen
tieth National Student Associa
tion Congress.
UNC's student body vice
president Jed Dietz said, "It is
hard to express what is happen
ing and it is hard to say what
we have accomplished so far."
However, several of UNC's
delegation have been assigned
to specific topics.
Martha Rainey is looking at
legislation to co-ordinate infor
mation on women's rules on
various campuses.
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for a modern economy," Rao
said. Rao's comments were prefac
ed by a tape recording of a
speech by the late Prime
Minister Nehru, originally given
on the eve of Indian Indepen
dence in 1947;
" The recording called for' In
dians to meet the challenge of
the future and its
responsibilities. Nehru called for
an end to poverty, ignorance and
disease and asked for the
people's help in bringing India
into the "modern world."
Wednesday night by the Caro
linas - Virginia region, and was
to be presented to the entire
congress Thursday.
Several delegates are gather
ing information on a discount
system for Carolina.
Judy Guillet is covering sem
inars on drugs. The main ques
tion being discussed concerns
the legality of marijuana and
whether NSA will give its sup
port to legalizing that or any
drug.
One delegate from Chapel
Hill who wished to be unidenti
fied said that the drug problem
in Chapel Hill is more wide
spread than most people think.
"The information being gained
here will help us deal with our
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By ABBY KAIGHIN
COLLEGE PARK, MD. -The
Carolinas - Virginia region
delegation to the National Stu
dent Association Convention
here Wednesday proposed a pro
gram mandate dealing with sex
discrimination in campus regu
lations. The mandate emphasises in
equality in women's rules.
The mandates for action in
due drawing up a booklet on
changes being made in wom
en's rules on various campuses,
the sponsoring of speakers who
advocate changes in women's
rules.
Former UNC Student Body
President and delegate Bob Po
well suggested that the nation
al NSA office "should open up
the whole question on the status
of women, which is almost a
taboo subject on Southern cam
puses." A third point of action recom
mended setting up a test case
on discrimination by sex based
on national civil rights legisla
tion. The regional delegation passed
the proposal unanimously and
it will be sent to the central
steering committee as a pro
gram mandate.
In other action, the delegation
voted down a University of Den
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Picket Washington
By ABBY KAIGHIN
WASHINGTON - More than
50 student leaders from the
NSA convention at nearby Col
lege Park, Md., picketed in
front of the White House Wed
nesday morning in protest of
the Vietnam War, and the
NSA's "ineffective" anti-w a r
stand.
problems," the delegate said.
Cherie Lewis is working on
information for judicial reform
at Carolina.
On Wednesday morning, a
group of about 70 students
crowded into a classroom with
a capacity of 60 to heard Wil
liam R. Beard, of the Parents'
Aid Society of Hempstead, N.Y.,
explain the various method of
birth control.
While he spoke of the respon
sibility of the male and the fe
male to each other, he said,
'Tf you are going to engage in
intercourse, then you will have
made that decision before com
ing to me. But I want to make
sure that girls do not get pregnant."
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ver program mandate on a na
tional referendum on the Viet
nam War. The choice in the re
ferendum would have been: "Do
you support the war in Vietnam,
the war on poverty, or both."
Also voted down was a spe
cial resolution opposing the
House of Rpresentatives bill
making desecration of the U. S.
flag a felony.
Powell had to objections to
the flag resolution.
"The NSA codification is full
of resolutions ranging from the
support of Iberian students , to
opposition to the dictatorship of
Spain's Franco, he said.
"Debate is centered around
the fact that we ought to rally
around things we can do best
and NSA shouldn't be a lob
bying group." As far as I'm
concerned, we can adjourn the
legislative session and talk
about things relevant to the
campus."
Powell was challenged by one
delgate who wanted to know
whether NSA should be a poli
tical or not.
"It's a question of priorities,"
he said, "whether we work on
things benefitting the campus or
on bills pending before Con
gress. I'd really rather work on
things more tangible to take
back to Chapel Hill."
The demonstration began
across the street from the White
House in LaFayette Park. Aft
er a permit was obtained, the
picketers moved across the
street beside the iron picket
fence.
The demonstrators, some
dressed very neatly and some
very grubbily, chanted "Kill
rats, not men," and carried
signs which read; "America is
infatuated by its own power,
embarrassed by its impotence,
driven to blind rage by i t s
guilt," "LBJ is God - at his
word murder becomes virtue,
infanticide heroism," "In vain
they die, we protest, you eulo
gize." The marchers passed out a
statement which called for an
end to the Vietnam war "now"
and called American foreign po
licy "a policy of aggression."
After demonstrating for three
hours, half the protestors went
to the Capitol to talk to their
Senators about the war, and
the foreign aid legislation now
pending before Congress.
Commenting on the demon
stration, UNC student body vice
president and delegate Jed
Dietz said, "The march will
probably look bad; people will
wonder where was everyone
else, and they'll misunderstand
that most others in NSA are
opposed to the war."