Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost three-quarters of the undergraduate student body is strongly opposed to Congressional investigations of the nation's schools and colleges, according to the results of yesterday's Liberal Union poll...
Liberal Union Political Action Chairman Philippe Villers '55 hailed the poll results as "surprising...
Student comments on the investigations often reached extremes. "McCarthy is a greater threat to democracy than Malenkov," stated one poll. Another said simply, "It's about time they cleaned out the Commies...
Also included in the Liberal Union poll were questions concerning the magnitude of the Communist threat to the United States and the problem of students called to testify before the committees. Almost 90 per cent termed international Communism a serious threat to the U.S. and over 55 per cent said that students should not be subpoenaed. Numerous complaints about poor and ambiguous wording forced the Liberal Union to discount the results of these questions, however...
...basic question, however, is whether English 10 is sophomore tutorial with added lectures and a common reading list or whether it is a survey courses which has engulfed tutorial work and has replaced it with standard--if smaller--section meetings. Sophomores in English 10 who answered the CRIMSON poll inclined toward the latter view. Tying tutorial to one course limits its scope. If a standardized plan of study is necessary for the sophomore, this also can be served in the sections of a survey course. But to insist that tutorial be this rigid and uniform is to destroy much...