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Show Michigan- Bags N.S.A SGC President Bruce Kahn, a senior in Michigan's literary college, col-lege, said, "I am extremely happy about this. NSA has done some really rotten things. To go to the convention takes one ninth of our $18,000-a-year budget and, as far as I'm concerned, it's wasted money." SGC's Executive Vice President, Ruth Baumann, who voted against withdrawal, said, "It's really a shame. It's not so much that Michigan Michi-gan needs NSA. NSA need Michigan. Michi-gan. If we didn't like NSA we should have stayed in and tried to change it." Miss Baumann, a member of NSA's National Supervisory Board,' placed third on the first ballot with 78 votes during NSA's presidential election this August at the University Univer-sity of Maryland. Campus sentiment seemed to be running strongly against NSA. After SGC rejected the motion to withdraw three weeks ago, unknown un-known students painted the words "Withdraw from NSA" and "NSA Stinks" on a blank wall surrounding surround-ing a construction project on campus. cam-pus. Michigan's student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, had printed two strongly worded editorials demanding de-manding withdrawal. By URBAN LEHNER Collegiate Press Service ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CPS) The University of Michigan last week became the third school in the nation na-tion to withdraw from the National Student Association, following last February's report that NSA covertly covert-ly received funds from the Central Intelligence Agency over a 15-year period. Michigan's Student Government Council voted 7-3 in favor of withdrawal with-drawal with no debate. SGC had defeated an identical motion three weeks earlier by a 6-5 margin. The vote to withdraw was apparently ap-parently motivated by the revelation revela-tion of NSA's links with the CIA and by reports of several Michigan delegates to the national convention conven-tion that NSA was an "undemocratic, "undemo-cratic, unrepresentative, elitist" body. Brandeis University seceded from NSA the day after its connections with the CIA were made public in January of this year. Michigan State University joined NSA the same day. Amherst became the second sec-ond this fall. - 1 |