Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate students are in a curious position. They are recruited into specialized programs, and receive specialized degrees. Yet a poll taken last year indicated that about 85 per cent of them are strongly opposed to a split. The interdisciplinary setup is "mercly icing on the cake-but it's really nice icing," said Gregg Thomson, a member of DeVore's committee who had helped coordinate the poll. "It allows for continual growth and transformation," he added, Furthermore, the graduate students have been doing most of the teaching recently. So they have both professional and educational obligations to look after...
Nobody knows about the undergraduates. A departmental policy committee is planning to poll them for their opinions on the split. But it is certainly safe to say that a substantial number of them are in the department precisely because they have little or no use for pre-professional, highly specialized training. Whether they are there because it is a gut, or because they are serious about despecialized learning. they see themselves as anything but scientists...
...overwhelming majority of full-time teachers at the Law School opposes President Nixon's nomination of Judge Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court, according to a recent poll sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA...
...Richard Nixon basked joyfully in the returns from the most important speech of his presidency, the televised address to his fellow citizens on the problems of war and peace in Viet Nam. There was a flood of congratulatory telegrams that he cheerfully displayed for photographers, a quickie Gallup telephone poll after the speech that showed a 77% favorable response, and a firm consensus of politicians and pundits that Nixon had achieved what he set out to do. At the same time, protesters against the war, unmollified by Nixon's blandishments, readied for this week's demonstrations even more...
...provoke the most widespread dissatisfaction with President Nixon's policies. Almost to a man, U.S. citizens feel frustrated by the persistence of inflation and its pervasive effects-high prices, oppressive interest rates and a severe scarcity of credit. Of those who were questioned in the latest Louis Harris poll, published last week, 51% gave Nixon a negative rating on Viet Nam; an overwhelming 79% disapproved of his handling of inflation...