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Show Colloquium Plans New Studen t Organization Studenuts representing 63 colleges col-leges from 35 states met in St. Louis last weekend to form a new national student organization. organiza-tion. The Associated Student Governments Gov-ernments of the United States of America (ASGUSA) is set up along the lines of a loose confederation of student gov ernments and plans to act as a clearing house for programs and ideas of student governments govern-ments across the country. By the constitution, ASGUSA has "no political intent or purpose." pur-pose." Commenting on the apolitical apoli-tical nature of the organization, Bill Featheringhill, chairman of the Constitutional Convention, said, "There must be a common ground upon which student gov- emment delegates can meet, regardless re-gardless of political ideologies, to execute the single objective of bettering student government, Political debate, which tends to alienate opposing factions, must remain only as a side order." LARRY BLANK ENSHIP, ASG-USA's ASG-USA's first president, said, "An organization has been created to satisfy a need which exists and which confronts collegiate student stu-dent government. I am gratified to have been elected its first president and will work hard to fulfill the obligations the post entails." The St Louis convention was termed by some of the delegates "one of the most successful in collegiate history." "I CAME here as an observer," said a senior from Manhattan College, "but I think this organization or-ganization can in time become the most effective of all the national na-tional organizations." Manhattan is affiliated with the United States National Student Stu-dent Association (USNSA). Plans for a late summer convention con-vention are not yet complete, but a site in the midwest is considered con-sidered likely, since most of the officers attend schools in that region. The convention was "quite productive," in the words of one University of Southern |