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Show Black students press NSA j for $49,000 debt payment U.S. waging war in Africa in the coming years. A major goal of the NABS anti-draft anti-draft program is to establish a special classification of "Black conscientious objector." to collect or earn money to pav NABS. F y Meanwhile, NABS is holding regional re-gional conferences across the country. A state conference of Black students in Wisconsin in December drew 600, and 150 attended a midwestern regional in Wichita, Kansas early this month A Black student business conference con-ference is scheduled with major U.S. corporations participating- it will be in Terrytown, New York next month. WASHINGTON--(CPS)-The National Association of Black Students Stu-dents (NABS) plans to press the National Student Association (NSA) to obtain a $49,000 debt which was due Oct. 1 last year. NSA's membership voted to give NABS $50,000 at the annual NSA Congress last August. So far, only $1,000 has been paid. Gwen Patton, director of NABS, said the organization's 15 student regional directors "are very uptight" about NSA's lack of payment and "there will be some kind of action, hopefully not physical." Plans continue for NABS service ser-vice programs, including lecture tours, entertainment offers, and a book club, but Miss Patton says the association cannot get funding for most of its activities. Attempts to get money from small foundations have not yet been successful, and NABS directors have decided they do not want to deal with larger foundations because of "strings attached to grants" and because NABS would have to "relate to the foundation rather than to its own constituency," she said. NABS, is cooperating with a local Washington anti-draft, anti-military anti-military program, "Project Stay-in," which encourages young Black men to stay in their communities com-munities rather than to get involved in-volved in the military. "All this country's wars in the last decade have been against third world countries. We can't see a white government posing Black man against Black," she said, adding that she can imagine the ' Legal action against NSA is one possibility, she said at a press con-" con-" ference Jan. 15. Had Black students as a group remained in NSA, the organization organiza-tion would have had to set up a Black program, and the money for that program would not have been optional, Miss Patton said. Neither is the commitment to NABS, despite NSA's own financial difficulties, she said. She also accused NSA of telling Black student unions it could not lend them financial support because be-cause of the money it was giving j to NABS. "It creates friction i between Blacks," she said. "As is , the old liberal tradition, NSA has r got two Black groups groping for the same piece of bread." Neither have received the bread, she - added. NSA President Charles Palmer has proposed a national day of reparation on member campuses |
