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Some of the criticism leveled at the assembly may stem from a certain lack of focus in assembly activities. The projects undertaken this year ranged from poll-taking--a function many assembly members say helped to establish the assembly's credibility in the eyes of administrators--to social directing. Many of the assembly's activities over the year have been directed toward prying open the governing structure of the University. The assembly has sponsored open meetings with President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies...
...among the chief organizers of the North and South House Committee boycotts were defeated candidates for chairman and vice chairman of the assembly. The North and South House Committees recommended that their House delegates boycott the assembly, although both Houses called off the boycotts after the assembly agreed to poll the students on the issue. Pfeffer, who resigned her CDU membership after the poll revealed that 46 per cent of undergraduates disapproved of the idea of parties, believes "the issue has now disappeared. The CDU had completely good intentions, but it backfired and damaged the reputation of the assembly...
Nevertheless, the school still has no separate course. Heskett says the school prefers to treat ethics as it comes up in class and calls attention to a recent poll of students showing that they sense an increase, throughout the school, of concentration on ethical issues. He feels that the students who most need training in ethics are the ones who are not interested enough to take a full course in the subject...
...home state, Kennedy is understandably even stronger. A poll taken last week at the Massachusetts Democratic convention showed the Senator beating Carter 5 to 1. After the poll, 15 members of the state house of representatives announced that they would organize a committee to find an alternative to Carter in 1980. Their first choice: Kennedy. Fearing back-to-back defeats in New Hampshire and then in Massachusetts' week-later primary, Carter's operatives last week were in the state trying to postpone the date. There is little prospect, however, that they will succeed...
...California and have begun to spread across the country like a rumor are still open to confusing interpretations: Are they a temporary inconvenience or ominous intimations of the future? The last gas crisis, in 1973-74, subsided soon enough. Perhaps this one will as well? According to the Gallup poll, more than three-quarters of Americans still believe that current gasoline shortages are a Big Oil contrivance. If decontrol begins, the assumption goes, prices will rise well above $1 a gallon...