College Delegates to NSA To Ask Extensive Reform

Student representatives from the University will ask reforms to the National Student Association when the federation of student groups holds its annual congress in August at the University of Minnesota.

College newspapers and student governments across the country have been attacking the N.S.A. consistently for several months on the grounds that its books are ill managed, its officers inefficient, that it is torn by internal dissension, an steered by Communists.

During the course of the past year, N.S.A., on which the Student Council annually spends about $450, piled up a deficit of approximately $20,000. Frederic D. Houghteling '51 was executive treasurer of N.S.A. until last February.

Despite its financial and internal misfortunes, the Council, and its offshoot, the Harvard Chapter of the N.S.A., have decided to see the N.S.A. through, rather than disaffiliate, Richard M. Sandler '52, president of the Council, said last night.

When N.S.A. holds a national convention August 20, the three-man Harvard delegation will recommend that management of N.S.A. funds be delegated to professional auditors. It will probably ask that the overall administration be decentralized to nullify the confusion caused during the past year when the president, Allard Lowenstein, of the University of North Carolina, feuded constantly with the other five members of the executive board.

Feuds With Eisenberg

Lowenstein feuded particularly with Herbert Eisenberg, of M.I.T., the vice-president in charge of international affairs, the area in which Harvard has been most interested.

Last year the Council held a long open debate on whether or not to continue membership in the N.S.A. Several members questioned whether the expense of participating in N.S.A. was equal to the returns. Ultimately the Council decided it would decrease its financial commitment but that it would continue its affiliation.