Sunday, November 8, 1964
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Page 5
TO
ler Answers Criticisms
Editors, The Tar Heel:
During the past few days many
false statements have been level
ed at the National Student As-
sociation. Most of these charges
are complete distortions of the
facts and in most cases they are
not true. Let's take a look at
some of these charges.
CHARGE: V. . . it is costing
us in excess of $1400 per year to
provide a two-week paid sum
mer vacation for. a small group
of campus politicos."
ANSWER: This campus elects
its delegates to the NSA each
year when it elects its student
body officers. Both campus po-
. litical parties cry for people to
run for these positions. Why"
haven't these people that are
concerned with the organization
ever run for the position of dele-
, Sate?
The two-week Congress is no
party as Arthur Hays, Chuck.
Neely, Bob Spearman, Pete Wales,
Karen Rawling and Jim Brame N
will tell you. They work in com
mittees concerning student prob
lems from 9 every morning un
til past midnight. This work goes
on for two full weeks.
CHARGE: "Where are these
services? Have they made them
selves felt in your life at Caro
lina?" ANSWER: The services that
NSA has provided . for Carolina
prevade our entire student lives.
It has helped us establish bet
. ter and more equitible judicial
procedures, better honor system
orientation, leadership programs .
Coordinator, Programs Hit
Jackson Refutes
'Vacation9 Charge
Editors, The Tar Heel:
For the past two years I
have , attended the National
Student Congress. .In 1963, I
paid over $100 of my own
money to attend as an alter
nate. In addition I missed two
weeks of work where I would
have made $150.
This past year I had my way
paid by part of that infamous
$1471. This required that I
miss three weeks of work and
about $150 of income.
:So, all in all, attending the
past two congresses has cOst
me over $500. These were the
most expensive vacations I
have ever heard of, at least ac
cording to my style of living.
. , In addition, the congress con
sists - of continuous seminars
from 9 in the morning to 12 at
night. ... This goes on for two
weeks. ' When I left the con
gress this past summer, I had
had four hours of sleep in the
last 72. If this is a vacation,
then I would hate to see work.
In short, . I have not partici-1
pated in any paid vacation even
though I may be a great "stu
, dent government politico," as
my critics say.
Neal Jackson
NSA Coordinator
Insurance Policy
v Lacks Agencies
' Editors, The Tar Heel:
A small notice' appeared in the
Daily Tar Heel early this week
offering a $10,000 life insurance
policy which is sponsored by the
National Student Association.
The policy would cost $20 annually
and would be 'convertible to a full,
life policy upon graduation.
I An investigation of this policy
has revealed that one important
item has been neglected in order
to hold the premium cost to a
-. minimum. The most important
consideration is that there are
for freshmen and sophomores, a
course evaluation booklet, orien
tation reforms, exchange pro
grams, etc.
As chairman of the Honor Sys
tem Commission, NSA is helping
me to investigate changing oar
campus code so that it will ap
ply to the student only while he
is on the campus and not at all
times. I would call these real
services to the campus.
CHARGE: "The money we have
paid and are now paying for
NSA could have financed new
social room improvement pro
jects, set up an improved intra
mural program, helped to pay
for another all-campus weekend,
and paid for an expanded orienta
tion program."
ANSWER: We have a general
surplus of around $50,000 that is
available, and we do not have to
give up NSA to have these other
programs. We are now spending
money on. social room projects
as can - be seen in Joyner and
Graham.
We just improved our intra
mural program last year by
raising fees and splitting the
cost with the University. Work
is now under way to make Ger
mans an all-campus weekend. Our
orientation program is undergoing
total revision this year, with the
help of NSA.
Using the logic of the anti-NSA
group, perhaps we should also do
away with the following which do
not directly benefit all Carolina
students: Carolina Forum which
has a budget of $2085; Interna
tional Students Board which has
no local agencies, since it is an
expansion of a commercial credit
life insurance company, that, by
nature, needs no agencies.
The low premium for the initial
policy is due to its having no
agencies; establishment of agen
cies would cause the premium to
go up. The local insurance agent
is very important to the indivi
dual policy holder, since it is usu
ally his prodding that keeps an
individual's policy up to date.
Settlement options, change of
beneficiary and many other serv
ices are the job of the agent.
Seldom does the policy holder
take the initiative to keep his
policy up to date. With the NSA
policy, there are no agents to
initiate this very necessary up
dating. The NSA insurance policy is
convertible to full life without a
physical examination. Statistics .
have shown that those who would
be poor risks will hold on to the
policy, while those that can pass
a physical will tend to drop it.
The bad risks will ride the backs
of the other policy holders that
do convert.
One other point: NSA establish
ed this as a project to fill the
coffers of the NSA treasury. For
each policy sold, the National
Student Association gets a kick
back. This is one of the services we
would lose if we decide to dis
affiliate. NSA should show more
respect for us and our invest
ments, if it expects us to re
main in the association. .
Bayard E. Harris
Jan J. Crawford
Referendum Bull
Abhorred By Sam
Editors, The Tar. Heel:
I would just like to say that
it's been very difficult for me to
keep my peace during the past
few days, what with the refer
endum on NSA and the charges
and counter-charges of fas
cists and Communists. -
a budget of $8601.80; the UNC De
bate Team which has a budget
cf $2780; and the Men's Glee
Club which has a budget of $1520.
CHARGE: .. . delegates to
NSA Congresses continue to waste
their time and your money in de
bating controversial national and
international political issues."
ANSWER: The USNSA Consti
tution states in Article XI, Sec
tion B, that: "No substantial part
of the activities of the national
and regional bodies of USNSA
shall be devoted to carrying on
propaganda or otherwise attempt
ing to influence legislation." Two
weeks out of 52 is not a substantial
part of NSA's time when one con
siders that the organization has
a full time staff that works on
government projects year round.
Most of this staff concerns it
self with trying to help student
governments improve student life
by doing studies cf such prob
lems as course evaluation, aca
demis freedom and reform, stu
dent - faculty - administrative re
lations, campus justice, campus
parking, college unions, student
government services, student wel
fare, campus political parties and
freshmen orientation.
The NSA is fighting internation
al student communism which
spend millions every year. NSA
must deal with national and in
ternational problems to have an
effective voice in this fight.
CHARGE: "The NSA is not the
only confederation of student gov
ernments in the country. The As
sociated Student Governments
of the United States of America
If Carolina votes to disaffli
rate next Tuesday, I shall he
forced to fire upon Old East.
Take heed.
Silent Sam
International Image Of UNC
Is Built Up With NSA 's Help
Editors, The Tar Heel:
The generation of students that
attended Carolina . a decade ago
was perhaps the first to fully
realize that the University was
no longer simply a state insti
tution with a nationally respect
ed reputation. Indeed, the Uni
versity of North Carolina had
earned for itself an important
place in the educational com
munity of the world.
Indicative of its growing inter
national notoriety was the in
creasing number , of people from
abroad who came to Carolina as
students from year to year. In
appreciation of the significance of
the contributions of foreign stu
dents to life at Carolina and in
realization of its obligation to en
courage wholesome reciprocity
on campus among all Carolina
students, Student Government
created the International Stu
dents Board in 1953.
A census of foreign students re
ported in the annual bulletin of
the Institute of International Edu
cation shows that almost 34,000
students from 129 countries were
enrolled in American colleges and
universities in 1953-54. Today
76,000 students from 150 nations
and territories are studying in
our midst.
At the time when the ISB was
created there were 67 foreign stu
dents at Carolina. Today one finds
that the foreign student popula
tion increase here for the past
decade has far exceeded the na
tional average.
For the present academic year,
there are 183 . students from
is one note worthy example."
ANSWER: The ASGUSA is a
student government organization
that was formed last spring to
fight the National Student As
sociation. There were only 54
schools represented at its or
ganizational meeting (as compar
ed to the 200 schools at the NSA
organizational meeting meeting
in Chicago in 1946) and the rep
resentatives of the schools were
not elected by their student bodies
but were appointed.
Its constitution was written and
ratified at this meeting by these
"representatives" with no author
ity from the individual schools.
The organization sent no advanc
ed notice that the schools would
adopt a constitution at the or
ganizational meeting.
This group, ASGUSA, provides
no services to its member
schools. In fact, it went to NSA
to try and buy the .NSA publica
tions because it had none of its
own. Carolina sent an observer
to the ASGUSA organizational
meeting in St. Louis and found
that the organization was not
providing any services and that it
did not seem to be worth our
time or money since it could not
compete with the National Stu
dent Association.
CHARGE: "We have long re
garded NSA as an enemy of frat
ernities and have consistently ad
vised our collegiate chapters to
oppose NSA affiliation."
ANSWER: According to the
NSA Codification of Policy,
"USNSA upholds the right of a
campus student or social organi
zation to select members of any
race, color, religion, creed, na
tional origin, or political belief
without restrictions and further
disapproves of any action to
force a social group to accept
any person if it does not wish."
This statement clearly states that
NSA is not opposed to fraterni
ties and sororities.
abroad enrolled for regular course
work in the University. Not the
very least of the reasons for this
increase, taking into account the
growth of the student body, is the
fine record of service and con
structive thought that members
cf the ISB, cooperating commit
tees, and foreign students them
selves over the past decade.
Presently the ISB is working
to improve its program and deep
en its insight while operating on
the conviction that the foreign
student at Carolina is a foreign
student, no more foreign to us,
however, than we are to him.
This philosophy of foreign stu
dent programming at Carolina
exists largely because our mem
bership in the National Student
Association has enabled us to re
ceive, firsthand, constructive pro
gram outlines that we have trans
formed into meaningful opera
tions in this area. Foreign Stu
dent Orientation here is basical
ly a manifestation of NSA rec
ommendations in this vital facet
of our over-all program.
We are particularly indebted to
a definitive publication, one of a
series, concerning international
student exchange and travel
which was compiled and edited
by Frank Crump of the USNSA
staff. Not only has this study
provided us with an orientation
outline in recent years but it has
been invaluable in our successful
coordination of both the Colom
bian and French Exchange Pro
grams. It was a publication like this
this one that enabled Carolina
students of a decade ago to be
Three of the last four presi
dents of NSA have been fraternity
men. Does this sound like an or
ganization that is opposed to
fraternities and sororities?
I have answered some of the
more blatant charges leveled at
the National Student Association
and I can answer the rest, but
space does not permit me to do
so in this paper. There will be
more false accusations made
against this organization between
now and the election Tuesday.
We will not have time nor space
to answer them all.
Ist-minute false accusations
have been made in the past to
kill NSA on other campuses. The
University of Texas had a refer
endum on NSA three years ago
and the night before the election
the John Birch Society circulat
ed a statement that the NSA
was on the Attorney General's
subversive list.
This is and was completely un
true, but as a result .Texas dis
affiliated. Texas was also one of
the founders of the NSA and the
first president of the organiza
tion was from the university. Do
not let something like this hap
pen to the University of North
Carolina. -
I ask you, could JFK, Adlai
Stevenson, Logan Wilson, Thrus
ton Morton, Dwight Eisenhower,
Lyndon B. Johnson, William Fri
day, William Miller, Everett
Dirksen, and many other nation
al political and educational lead
ers be wrong in endorsing the
National Student Association? I
think not.
That is just one of many rea
sons why I am supporting NSA
and why I am asking you, the
student body, to do likewise.
Paul Dickson
242 Ehringhaus
Chairman of the
Honor System
Commission
gin the investigation that resulted
in the highly successful Geottin
gen Exchange Program. Our suc
cess here came at a time when
individual universities did not
generally boast of exchange pro
grams. More pointedly, the affiliation
of this University with NSA has
enabled Carolina to attain pre
eminence in the area of foreign
student programming.' Admitted
ly we have not opened all of the
crates but the ship is at least se
curely tied to the dock.
At a recent conference of
People-to-People, a national for
eign student programming organ
ization set up by the Eisenhower
Administration, representatives of
Carolina students were able to
contribute significantly to semin
ars studying the needs of foreign
students in this country. Caro
lina was invited to attend this
Conference by the Directors of
People-to-People because of its
extensive efforts in the interest
of foreign visitors and students
from abroad. So significant was
the contribution of the UNC pro
gram to the conference that the
regional representatives of
People-to-People will visit our
campus next wreek in order to
study each facet of our program.
The NSA Committee, the Inter
national Students Board and
members of the University fac
ulty and staff will cooperate
with the President of the Student
; Body in making possible a mean
ingful appraisal of our program
for foreign students.
Jim Clark .