Council Refuses Request For Discussion on NSA

Controversy continued yesterday on the Student Council decision to withdraw from the National Student Association, as the Council's Executive Committee refused a student organization's request that its protest be placed on the agenda for next Monday's meeting.

Derek T. Winans '60, Chairman of the Harvard Freedom Council, whose request to address the Council was turned down last night, termed the Executive Committee action an attempt to postpone discussion until "the N.S.A. issue dies down." The Council is "under an obligation," he added, to hear his and others' protests now, because of the "hasty manner in which the subject was handled last Monday."

Marc E. Leland '59, President of the Student Council, indicated that he might be willing to give Winans an opportunity to speak at a later meeting, but that the Council had "too many things to do" at this time. The Executive Committee considered N.S.A. a "settled issue," he said, and as such "it deserves no place on our agenda now."

Winans Praises N.S.A.

"Those of us who are familiar with the fine work of N.S.A. in the international field are astounded by the Student Council's unwarranted action," Winans asserted in a statement released yesterday afternoon.

Meanwhile, Leland announced that the student governmental seminar of Ivy League, Little Three and Seven-College Conference schools jointly sponsored by Columbia and Harvard, would take place at Columbia the week-end of Dec. 6.