Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political aura of American universities has thickened since 1954, when the Constitution was written. Predictably, the war in Vietnam intruded into the modest workings of the Council. The referendum and poll being held this week is only the visible portion of an encroaching iceberg...
...climax of the referendum battle took place at the February 5 meeting of the Council. After elections for the semester were concluded and Munyon was installed as president, Parker proposed that a non-binding opinion poll be substituted for the anti-war referendum. The latter called for prompt withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam and would have been binding on the Council if approved. Parker's motion passed...
...motion was amended to allow only dues-paying GSA members the right to vote. (Of approximately 4500 graduate students, only 1500 pay GSA dues.) The Council also retained the opinion poll, which will be offered to all graduate students. Finally, the Theeman forces were unable to moderate the wording of the referendum, which called for "immediate withdrawal." Council member Roger Rifer, a close associate of Parker's, had originally proposed "unilateral withdrawal" for the referendum, and the activist group was forced to compromise on the severe "immediate withdrawal" wording...
Feintuch and Miss Theeman assert that the poll is a sop to the other graduate students. "The leadership of the GSA has provided 7-10 answers for each question so that it's impossible to get a majority on any one question," Miss Theeman says...
White notes that the GSA referendum, as introduced, contained the phrase "The GSA, speaking for its members..." "It would be point to allow non-GSA persons to influence this motion," he says. Moreover, he asserts that the poll "has sufficient latitude that a person can come much closer to expressing his true feelings...