Word: survey
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...last year's Guide. The first two of those paragraphs were inaccurate last year, and the passage of time has only compounded that inaccuracy. A Philosophy Department representative could have pointed out that tutorials in philosophy now deal entirely with historical texts and that the Department now has two survey courses in the history of modern philosophy. More survey courses are planned for the future...
Afraid to Believe. For the most part, however, students seem unwilling to involve themselves directly in the U.S. political process. A recent survey showed that half of the students polled at the University of Missouri are not even registered to vote. At the University of Kansas, campus Democrats concluded after a poll that large numbers of students did not know that State Attorney General Vern Miller was a candidate for Governor, even though he had gained much notoriety for his flamboyant drug arrests of Kansas students. At the University of Wisconsin, says Tim Tully, 28, a graduate student and veteran...
Almost 80% of the 270 big businessmen polled in a 1970 FORTUNE 500-Yankelovich survey believed that some effort should be made to curb population growth. Princeton Demographer Charles Westoff, former executive director of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, claims that even today a great many babies are unwanted and that more effective, readily available birth control would be enough to regulate growth...
...interesting to note, however, that in a survey answered by about half--presumably the more concerned half--of Harvard's 1974 25th Reunion Class, over 62 per cent favored "merger." Sixty-eight per cent favored the "admission of women to Harvard College." Although the distinction between the two questions is not clear, the responses indicate that a sizable portion of last year's 25th Reunion Class--the class traditionally responsible for the largest annual contribution to the University--does not share the von Stade hypothesis...
...Sepe's more imaginative sentences have been vulnerable to criticism. One assignment, for instance, was to make a defendant caught attempting burglary ask every Jewish family in a voting district whether it had been tested for Tay-Sachs disease, and keep a record of the answer. The survey was abandoned after a medical researcher called it "silly" and pointed out that expert counseling is necessary before such testing, in order to avoid unduly alarming those who may be carriers but do not have the genetic disease. Sepe also caused a local furor last year by offering to release convicted...