Word: polling
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...reformers. Pa-about Magraw's competence and about his interest in the students. But Magraw, it seems, played it very smart. lazzo had very bad things to say He was seconded by John Crocker--chairman of the Dunster House Committee, who drafted a 21-page report on the parietals poll in his House. He realized that so late in the year, after there had already been one change, there was no chance of success for the parietal proposal in the committee. Magraw chose to wait it out. The HUC never touched parietals during the whole time that Palazzo was collecting...
...quickly. Three other Lowell House students-Neal P. Katz '68, John D. Kennedy '68, and Andrew Zucker '67-drew up petitions asking for a trial period of extended hours that would become the focus of the Masters' lebate. Palazzo, meanwhile, drew up a far more detailed questionnaire. Together, the poll and the petition received favorable responses from 80 to 90 per cent of the students from all the residential Houses except Kirkland. Palazzo also pushed for a town meeting in Lowell House-an open forum where parietals and the revamping of House government would be discussed...
Prevailing Pattern. In Vermont, where the town of Stratton (pop. 24) once had equal representation with Burlington (pop. 35,531), a reapportioned legislature has abolished the poll tax, approved a capital-gains tax and passed the first deficit budget in the state's history. In Maryland, where suburban representatives have replaced many small-county lawmakers, a graduated income tax, a fair-housing law and the state's first billion-dollar budget have been adopted (TIME, April...
Statistics seem to support Halleck. A recent poll indicated that 15% of Princeton undergraduates had experimented with drugs, and that a surprising two-thirds of these were on the dean's list. The Crimson figured that 25% of Harvard students had smoked marijuana at least once. On the basis of a survey that he has just completed, Yale's chief psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Arnstein, estimated last week that 20% of Yale students have smoked pot, half of them four or more times...
...Frank Johnson who sat as a member of the three-judge court that abolished the Alabama poll tax; that handed down the first order requiring a state to reapportion its devised by judges. It was Frank who so inspired an Alabama with a sense of responsibility that it was able to convict the three Ku Klux Klansmen who gunned down Viola Liuzzo on the road back to Montgomery from Selma. It was Frank Johnson whomustered the three-judge court that has just ordered desegregation of all of Alabama's 118 school districts next fall-the first such statewide ruling...