KANSAS STATE OUSTS NSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300720005-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 14, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

Human Events (9 1 ~ a
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Kansas State Ousts NSA :5
This past, summer the annual National Student
Association (NSA) Congress was held on the campus
of Kansas State University in Manhattanville, Kan.
(see Human Events, Sept. 14, 1968, page 12). This
past November 20 Kansas State University became.
the first college during the current fall semester to
+disaffiliate with the. National Student Association.
By a margin of 4 to 1-3,731 to 943-students
at the university voted in a campus-wide referen-.
'dum to have their school disassociate itself from
the radical NSA, as have some 100 other schools
in the past. It was, reported the student news-
paper, what "may be a record number of votes
in. any K-State election for referendum.".
The campaign, to oust NSA was led by Kansas
State members of Young Americans for Freedom
`(YAF) and College Young Republicans (CYR), under
'the aegis of the STOP-NSA, committee (Students to
Oppose Participation in the National Student Asso-
ciation). The young conservatives distributed liter-.
ature documenting such national NSA political posi-
tions as advocating admission of Red China to the
U.N., condemnation of U.S. participation in the
war in Viet Nam, support of achieving "Black Power"
by "any means necessary,". and championing of
Student Power a la Columbia.
KSU student ? Robert Fyfe, leader of both YAF
and STOP-NSA, commented aflcr the landslide elec-':
tion, "The majority of KSU students are not con-
servative, but moderate, and they have no use for
-Student Power in the tradition of Columbia and
Berkeley. And after having had the Congress here,
NSA proponents found. it impossible to convince
students that NSA is not radical."
On the opposite side, the referendum result was
.doubly embarrassing for KSU student body President
.Robert Morrow. He had just been appointed mid
west coordinator for NSA, only to see NSA tossed,
off his campus by the biggest margin by which it
has been kicked off any major U.S. campus. The
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KSU students "voted as they did because they didn
understand or have the time tq do research to under-
stand,"' rationalized the, ',NSA's' "man-* without a
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