Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prisons, judges in Alabama, Rhode Island, Oklahoma and Louisiana have decreed elaborate instructions on food handling, hospital operations, recreation facilities, sanitation, laundry, painting and plumbing, including the number of inmates per toilet. In Virginia, a federal judge overruled a school-board ban on the publication of a high school poll on birth control; in New Mexico, a judge ruled that Mexican American children must have bilingual education. To save a three-inch fish, the snail darter, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a $116 million hydroelectric project in Tennessee...
Last week, after hearing that 52 per cent of students who responded to a Student Assembly referendum said that Harvard should "take whatever steps are necessary" to change the name of the library, Calkins balked, saying that he didn't know if the poll was indicative of student opinion...
Caulkins refused to say why the poll may not be considered indicative of student beliefs, and his attitude is indicative of the Corporation's severe case of myopla...
Putnam agreed that "the poll doesn't necessarily mean anything will be changed," but added that he considered the results "a perfectly accurate gauge of student opinion. I think everyone already knew how the students felt...
Calkins had earlier said that if a majority of students favored the name change, the question would be added to the fellows' agenda. After the poll was released, Calkins said, "I don't know whether I or other Corporation members will regard this poll as indicating that the majority of students want the name changed or the money returned...