Word: polls
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...Harvard Corporation in a meeting yesterday morning effectively decided not to change the name of the Charles W. Engelhard Library for Public Affairs although a majority of the students said in a recent Student Assembly poll they support a name change...
Still, the feeling persists: the judges have gone too far. Sociologist Nathan Glazer says that the progression of judicially enforced rights has given the country "indigestion," like a boa constrictor that has swallowed a goat. Though judges rate high in public opinion surveys - a poll commissioned by the American Bar Association last year found that 77% believed that judges are "generally honest and fair"- politicians and public alike have begun agitating to make them more accountable for both their judgments and their conduct. But accountability should not come at the cost of compromising judicial independence...
...last few years. But this should serve to show the general trend in the students. Furthermore, most of the students do not even know what the CRR is or does. Students are not opposed to the CRR as you would have us believe. As a matter of fact, the poll that the Freshman Council took of its constituents showed that the class favored sending students to the CRR like the last two classes had. The results were not overwhelming; many did not even vote. But to say that the freshman class is opposed to the CRR is absurd even given...
...December 11, Calkins stated in an open meeting that if a majority of students favored renaming the library, the issue would be put on the Corporation's agenda. But now, after the results of the Student Assembly poll are in, he says "an expression of student opinion does not automatically put the issue on the Corporation docket...
...poll results showed that a majority favored renaming the library no matter what, and the people who ran the poll have publicly stated that had the question not been worded so vaguely, the vote in favor of dropping Engelhard's name might well have been higher. Yet Calkins says, "I don't know whether I or other Corporation members will regard this poll as indicating the majority of students want the name changed and the money returned...