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...true that various groups, including The Crimson, send polls out online every year using similar methodologies to gather results. These are no more accurate than the ROTC poll, but they are also not used to advocate major policy changes on highly charged issues...
...responses to the HRC poll and the discussion it has created does show that there is a great deal of campus interest in this contentious issue, however, and groups from across the spectrum should continue a vibrant conversation on the policy...
Specifically, the HRC and other interested groups should engage in a more scientific poll if they wish to gauge true student opinion on this policy. The polling should include random sampling to gain a more accurate representation of the student body, as well as more survey choices to properly reflect the nuanced positions that many students hold. This exercise could continue to forward discussion on an important topic and allow more students a route to voice their opinion...
Though while we are interested to see what better polling would uncover, our position on the fundamental question of ROTC recognition will not change no matter what the results are, because this is an issue of discrimination that should not be decided by majority opinion. Harvard should welcome ROTC back when ROTC welcomes all students to join, not in response to any poll—especially a poll as flawed as this...
...upkeep of a swimming pool; $942 to fit a chandelier. The extravagance of many of the expense claims filed by British MPs in recent years, deliciously catalogued this past week by the country's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which obtained leaked details, have British voters fuming. In a poll taken by the Times of London, more than four fifths of Britons thought all the country's legislators were as bad as each other for milking their allowance system, if not illegally, then far beyond its spirit. A majority said the furor was proof of "how self-serving and out of touch...