Word: polled
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...addition to the referendum the Council will poll graduate student attitudes on the war, the draft, defense contracts, campus recruitment, and the role within the university of the Graduate Student Association, which has some 1500 members. All graduate students will be eligible to vote on the referendum at any of seven polling places next week...
...last night's meeting in Harkness Commons, there was heated debate over both the referendum and the poll. Margaret A. Theeman, second year graduate student in Social Relations, led the forces favoring the referendum. "Harvard graduate students should have a chance to express themselves on issues more important than new television sets," she said. "I want to remind the Council that there's a war going...
...feel I've made some progress," said Romney at week's end. Indeed, his staffers now have hopes that the overwhelming Nixon support in New Hampshire may be as shallow as it is wide. Even Nixon's forces are skeptical of one early poll showing Romney behind 5 to 1. Nixonites feel that this is merely a ploy to make even slight gains seem a Romney triumph. They may well be, since enthusiasm for a Ronald Reagan write-in-which would siphon off Nixon strength-is evaporating. As if this were not enough woe for Romney...
Martin Peretz asked why there was no American Student Union against the draft and the war of half a million students at the least. It was a disturbing challenge. Why, indeed, is there no massive student protest of the war? The CRIMSON poll suggests that a significant number of seniors were considering either leaving the country or going to jail in order to avoid induction. These are pretty drastic acts. The poll also showed that 94 per cent of the sample was against the present U.S. policy in Vietnam. But why are Harvard anti-war demonstrations so meager, so self...
...seniors should be especially affronted by this gratuitous condemnation. President Pusey has chosen to ignore our exquisite agony about the draft in spite of a CRIMSON poll which would clearly legitimize some stronger position against this senseless war. Indeed, Harvard under his administration seems committed to that most despicable of courses, which Bruno Bettelheim scornfully calls "culture as usual...