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Show NASA Conference Student Power dents, that affect our learning." Another delegate from Michigan State saw the conference as a kick-off point. "I learned you have to know your power structure, you have to know where you belong as students, and then move in." Schwartz attempted to introduce intro-duce a resolution urging other authors of the Joint Statement on Student Rights and Freedoms to ratify it immediately. Delegates argued over the propriety of introducing in-troducing resolutions and Schwartz finally withdrew his proposal. Just before the last session adjourned, ad-journed, Schwartz told the delegates dele-gates what NSA is going to do for student power: "We need lawyers and funds for court battles. We are going to draw up a handbook of student legal rights. We are going to give you assistance from the national office. We are going to draw up models, arguments, and plans, some of which will come out of a book of case studies on student power which wep lan to publish soon. And we're going to try to use the NSA structure more effectively effec-tively by organizing you through your regions." By NANCY HARDING and DOUG STONE j Collegiate Press Service I MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (CPS) The National Student Association's Associa-tion's conference on student power began with a disruption and ended with mixed reactions from the delegates. del-egates. 1 In between, delegates meeting on the University of Minnesota campus last weekend argued about such concepts as legal rights of students; social freedom; auton- omy of student governments; extraordinary ex-traordinary tactics such as strikes, boycotts and sit-ins and educational education-al reform. Friday night NSA President Ed Schwartz struck a moderate tone in his keynote speech. Create Student Community "Student power is an attempt to create community between the students of the university," he said. "Students, faculty and administration ad-ministration should participate in decisions affecting the entire university." uni-versity." Schwartz called for a resolution of the conflict between "rhetoric and reality" in university administration. adminis-tration. The student power movement move-ment is "a movement to improve our own position within the university uni-versity and to improve the educational educa-tional climate of the university itself," it-self," he said. The NSA president told the del- egates most college administrators V and faculty "fear" student power because they think students want to destroy the university, that stu-( stu-( dent power means "anarchy." Tactics Non-Violent In an interview after his speech, Schwartz emphasized that student power tactics should be non-violent. "I have yet to see a situation in which violent tactics are necessary," neces-sary," he said. He also noted a contradiction between what the university says in its classrooms and what it actually actu-ally does. "On many campuses, students hear their administrators say that the channels will yield change," he said, "yet they learn that only working outside the channels yields change." Ever-Changing Campus Saturday morning, Robert Van Waes, associate secretary of the i American Association of University Univers-ity Professors, said the conference was an assertion by students of their part in the administration of an ever-changing campus. He listed the impersonality of campuses, the irrelevance of curriculum, cur-riculum, poor teaching methods, outdated social rules, neglect of student rights, and a lack of a significant role for students in the administration of colleges as the problems facing the delegates. Van Waes urged the conference and NSA to strive for immediate wider adoption of the Joint Statement State-ment in Student Rights, especially among administration organizations. organiza-tions. The statement has been approved ap-proved by NSA and the AAUP but still awaits approval from the American Am-erican Association of Colleges, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and the National Association of Women's Deans and Counselors. NSA must also, Van Waes said, attempt special studies on student problems, organize regional conferences, con-ferences, organize individual campus cam-pus actions, and collaborate with people in the academic world. "We will create a genuine community, a vehicle for the reconstruction of American society," he concluded. Waes Talks Down To Students After the speech a student panel reacted, mostly negatively, to what Van Waes had said. They accused him of "talking down to us." Mike Rossman, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley Berke-ley in 1964, said Van Waes hadn't told the delegates what their real problems were and added that NSA does not guide the student power movement. Rossman proposed that students seek out faculty and get them on "our side. Go into any building on a campus and the faculty are sitting sit-ting in their offices with the doors open or shut and just waiting for students to come to talk to them. And we should; we must, if the movement is to succeed." Law Professor Speaks An unexpected speech Saturday afternoon by a University of Alabama Ala-bama law professor proved to be one of the highlights of the conference. con-ference. Assistant Professor Roy Lucas told the conference that students stu-dents could gain power through the courts. "One of the most effective ways to get student rights is through the threat of law suit," he said. "Student rights are protected by the constitution and the courts." Women's dorm hours may be a violation of the 14th Amendment and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, both of which guarantee equal protection protec-tion under the law, he said. And disciplinary counseling offices which punish students after they have been prosecuted by civil authorities may be violating the legal rule against double jeopardy being punished twice for the same crime according to Lucas. Students Discuss Conference Paul Soglin of the University of Wisconsin, a member of NSA's National Supervisory Board, said the conference concentrated too heavily on non-academic problems. "We are talking about the wrong things," he said. "We should talk about things that affect us as stu- |