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CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 800 Adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on April 6-7 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 3.5% Not sures omitted...
Even there, the group seems to have struck out. Young people are comfortable with affirmative action, according to a poll conducted last year by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research; they believe education and not more police are the answer to crime; and though they are deeply concerned about the environment, most don't believe more government regulations are in order...
...constitution is elegant in its simplicity: "Any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." Upon receiving the petition, however, Gabay decided that this simple clause actually implies all manner of complex restrictions on our right of referendum. But 1,100 students signed the petition in good faith. Gabay's objection implies that more than 440 signatories would, if we called them, say, "No, I did not know there were five questions on the referendum, and I don't think students should be able...
...thirds of all students aren't happywith the status quo. In a Crimson poll of 341students, 51 percent said they would preferdistributional requirements to the corecurriculum, and 16 percent more said they wouldlike to have no requirements. Only 33 percentwould choose the core Harvard...
...core curriculum is supposed to offer"approaches to knowledge." But many teachers saytheir classes are not taught differently in thecore. The result is a patchwork education inspecific topics that most students find useless. CrimsonJennifer J. BaikHASSEN A. SAYEED '96Eugene Y ChangCore Poll Would you prefer A) requiredcourses distributed through different departments,B) the core we have now, or C) no requirements?Crimson File PhotoLAWRENCE BUELL...