Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, same day, February 21, the Columbia student council will poll undergraduates on the question. "Should the University compile and release class rank to draft boards?" The Council first planned the referendum early last semester, before the faculty had taken any action. What would have been a plea for action (assuming the tally will be against class rank) is now reduced to an opportunity to support the College faculty...
There is one important aspect to the Council poll: it will be open to all undergraduates, rather than just students at the College. This includes Barnard girls, engineering students and night students. Each School will vote separately and will be tallied separately. The faculty which passed the Shenton-Hovde proposal is the College faculty. Theoretically, then, the proposal only concerns students in the College. If the proposal is enacted, however, McMenamin said last week, it is "reasonably certain" that it would apply to all undergraduates...
...which no Lyndon-ologist expects to last for long-may annoy the White House press corps, but there is no evidence that it annoys the country. In fact, it may prove to be just the right medicine for the President's sagging popularity. Last week's Harris poll showed that Johnson's margin- 56% to 44%-had neatly reversed Senator Robert Kennedy's embarrassing lead of last fall in the popularity ratings...
...going to undergo some miraculous transformation and start believing in the revolution just because some nice students take away his deferment. Can we in all honesty expect him to act in any other than a hostile manner toward the Left? We must take into consideration that in a recent poll, the students of Harvard indicated that they wished to be exempted--meaning simply that they did not want to go and fight (or go to jail). And we do not believe they should--nor that anyone should be faced with these alternatives...
Finally, on the campus, a movement against ranking is in the air. In the Harvard poll, the students who wished exemptions also seemed generally to oppose ranking. Ranking, draft tests, secret research, ROTC, and military and CIA recruitment are all cold war invasions of the campus. These sort of government invasions of the university and its programs are dangerous to the attempt at creative objective training the university is supposed to provide. Truth becomes secondary, and apologies for the Establishment become primary. Freedom of inquiry is jeopardized by special interests...