Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just before he retired to randomize the first-year housing lottery for the sake of "diversity." Unfortunately, randomization is effectively destroying the character of many houses. Although Lewis has agreed to reconsider the decision in three years if asked, he has thus far completely supported the misguided policy. A poll last spring by the Undergraduate Council showed that 81 percent of students opposed randomization. Jewett knew that fact when he made his decision, and Lewis is fully aware of that fact now; yet both favor ignoring student voices and fragmenting the student body...
While nearly one-third of students responded that they initially "hated" the LED frieze in a Crimson poll, when the LED began to run student-related announcements instead of segments of Alice in Wonderland, student opinion swung...
Seniors asked in a recent poll to describe their class were stumped. Many students--sounding a bit like admissions materials--say the class is rather like other Harvard classes: "unique, diverse, talented, exciting, stressed...
...Today recently offered a different perspective. It quoted last month a 1995 poll of 502 high school guidance counselors by Collegiate Information Services of Greenwich, Conn. Seventy-two percent of the counselors say colleges don't pay enough attention to career training, while a mere 45 percent say colleges do not sufficiently emphasize a classic liberal arts education...
Although both the poll and what the nurses meant by hastening are still being hotly questioned, the story at least brings the focus back where it belongs. Historically, euthanasia talks have always broken down over who gets to pull the trigger. Even the Germans of the 1930s drew the line when Hitler got into euthanasia. Strangers can never decide whose life is worth living, because strangers by definition don't know enough; but neither do friends, because the outside of an illness is so different from the inside. To the eye of Health, any number of conditions may seem quite...