Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unofficial poll, conducted by the library's night staff this week, revealed that, out of 90 girls, not one favored total expulsion of men from Hilles...
...poll was held to aid the Administration in planning for reading and exam periods, when it is expected that Hilles will be used to capacity. The library's day staff has been investigating the problem of overcrowding, and making periodic spot checks on the number of people using Hilles at all hours...
Roger Lowenstein 2L, one of the poll's organizers, felt that the opening of Lamont to Cliffies has "removed much of the bile" that caused the girls to complain about the superabundance of males in their library during the more crowded hours...
More to Learn. Though the polls take themselves too seriously -and are usually taken too seriously -they do offer a kind of instant insight into the broader views of Americans and can catch sharp turns in public opinion. As a basis for making decisions, though, they are perilous guidelines indeed; not even Lyndon Johnson, for all his poll watching, has been accused of making policy on the basis of polls. "We take them seriously up to a point, but pollsters have a long way to go in learning their trade," says William Roberts, partner in California's successful political...
...only 51% of them feel that way. Unpopularity is, after all, an occupational hazard of New York mayors; even Lindsay's bland predecessor, Robert Wagner, a Democrat in a city with a 7-to-2 Democratic registration edge, had 53% of the voters against him, according to a poll taken toward the end of his third term. The high hopes built up by a fresh new face made a letdown inevitable. Lindsay was, says Wagner, "the greatest mayor the city ever had -before he took office...