College Votes for N.S.A. Affiliation; Student Ballot Shows 1382 Majority

Harvard College has cast its lot with the National Student Association.

In two days of balloting, 1957 students gave consent to affiliation with the newly organized student federation. There were 575 dissents.

The Student Council, which ordered and supervised the referendum, will next week communicate the results to N.S.A. headquarters at Madison, Wisconsin, where the College will be formally added to the organization's new charter.

Lawrence M. Jaffa 2D, chairman of the Northern. New England region of the N.S.A., last night hailed the College's action, stating that he could "now assure leading colleges is still in the picture."

Hard Part Ahead

Simultaneously, William J. Richard, Jr. '49, who piloted the organization through its test at the College, declared that the vote is really "a formalization of the part Harvard has played all along."

Asserting that the most difficult part of the project still lies ahead, Richard said that the referendum has awakened widespread interest in N.S.A. and that "the organization will start to work immediately to show students just how it will affect the College."

Robert Smith 1G, NSA vice-president in charge of international student affairs, expressed gratification on the part of the national officers at the outcome of the College's vote. He conducts the NSA's total foreign program from 5 Bryant St.