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This poll’s various flaws make it a highly inaccurate barometer of the opinions of the student body. The nature of the poll, in which students were emailed a link and given the option to respond, lends itself to a self-selection bias. Only the students interested in answering the email, and if so, the specific questions presented in the poll, would participate in the exercise. Therefore, since there is a clear and significant difference between the population that selected into the survey and that which did not, any claim that the views of the 26 percent...
...addition, any student possessing an opinion more nuanced than a simple “yes” or “no” would have difficulty express his or her opinion on such a complex issue, given the phrasing of the question. The HRC has acknowledged the existence of a self-selection bias, but still claims that its poll demonstrates that “student opinion” is “at odds with Faculty opinion” on the ROTC question. This is certainly not the case when the poll in question is sent out online, offers...
...Also joining Hammonds, Harris, Meyer, and McLoughlin at the meetings were Dean of Freshman Thomas Dingman, Associate Dean of Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson, Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith Kidd, and Senior Associate Athletic Director Patricia Henry...
...Hammonds said that students now have the chance to apply to be a part of for one of two 16-person College Working Groups, which will consider further changes to undergraduate education and student life...
...have Ai Weiwei, an unusual champion whose determination not to let the issue be buried under bureaucratic obfuscations and strong-arming is - if anything - even greater than their own. On May 5, having steadfastly refused to do so for the past year, authorities released an estimate that 5,335 students died in the quake - a concession that was widely viewed as being forced by Ai's unrelenting campaign and the work of scores of volunteers on the ground in the earthquake zone. They have been collecting names, ages and other details of the dead students and relaying them...