Students: The Crowded Left

"It's pretty easy to see what this congress is," said one delegate at last week's annual meeting of the National Student Association held at the University of Illinois. "It's a meeting between the left left-wingers and the right left-wingers." Such was certainly the impression that many of the 425 delegates, representing 250 college student governments, tried hard to get across.

The newly elected president of the N.S.A., Rhodes Scholar and University of Chicago Graduate Gene Groves, proclaimed that he is a "leftwing Democrat." The newly elected national-affairs vice president, former New York...

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