Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Open Complaints. But the quiet rebellion continued. Sixty-five students of Hall High School signed a petition demanding the reopening of their school, even if it meant integration. A student-run poll of 501 junior and senior high school pupils (Little Rock's total: 3,698) showed that 71% wanted schools reopened, even if integrated. A mothers' committee of 50, organized by matriarchal, Vassar-educated Mrs. David D. Terry of one of Little Rock's first families, went to work campaigning for acceptance of limited integration as the only means to keep public education alive in Arkansas...
...reports that the Council has placed on agenda for Monday's meeting, Kapur added, "can wait." He pointed out that the Council must remember that it is spending the students' money in any activity it undertakes. The withdrawal from NSA, he stated, opposes a poll that constitutes the only recent expression of student opinion on the issue. He suggested a new referendum to determine current student sentiment about the College's status...
...Student Council survey conducted last spring revealed that a majority of the students polled favored Harvard's remaining in N.S.A. Though the results of this poll are far from conclusive, they constitute the only definite indication of student opinion on N.S.A. Yet the Council--which considers itself a representative of student feeling--saw fit to ignore this poll entirely...
Whether the Council's poll will have any effect on Dining Hall policy remains to be seen, and the Council has, itself, made very little of the information. But any major changes in undergraduate eating would have to come through revision of one of two axioms of University Hall: (1) The dining halls must pay for themselves and (2) "Eating is an important part of College life...
Marc E. Leland '59, President of the Student Council, stated that the funds would be used to finance special Council reports on the Houses, drama, science and the Harvard Student Agencies. In addition, the Council will prepare a report based on last spring's dining hall poll and will sponsor a new poll later this year...