Pusey Officially States Position on '62 NDEA

The University has officially turned down National Defense Education Act student loans until at least 1963.

After the Faculty of Arts and Sciences recommended continued withdrawal from NDEA, President Pusey wrote to James W. Moore, Chief of the Student Loan Section, Division of Higher Education, Office of Education, in Washington, explaining the University's stand.

Pusey last spring had accepted NDEA loans for 1962-63 on the condition that Congress would repeal the program's affidavit. After Congress failed to act on repeal, Moore asked Pusey for a statement of the University's intention.

"The feeling here is that only by standing firm on this point can we and other American colleges make clear our determined opposition to legislation in which there is implied an infringement of an ancient freedom--the freedom of universities to govern themselves," said Pusey.