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This week there is solid evidence that Carter's efforts to woo the American people are paying off. A survey for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc.-the most comprehensive poll to be published since Carter took office-shows a majority of Americans support his criticism of Soviet human rights violations, approve of his informal style and think that he can be trusted (see following story). Carter's own pollster, Patrick Caddell, finds that the President is making "major inroads" among groups of voters who gave him lukewarm support during the election, including Jews, blue-collar ethnics...
Pity we may have for them, but for the administration's "aren't they cute" attitude and The Crimson's decision to comment on the process only insofar as the private poll validated The Crimson's own survey, another response is in order. Both of these reactions, are characterized by self-congratulation and absolute admiration for the devious, fraudulent nature of the private poll. While we may perhaps find the original deception excusable--weren't we all freshmen who thought the housing lottery was the most important event of our lives once, and would have done nearly anything to avoid...
Poll data suggest that the Houses fall into two rough categories. The first five Houses--Leverett, Kirkland, Dunster, Quincy and Winthrop, in descending order--will be the first-choice House of nearly three-quarters of the freshmen, unless they altered their housing forms following publication of the survey results...
Gams said the group based the report on a survey of 5000 college students polled during the past 18 months. The survey found that 57 per cent of the students would have applied to different schools if they had had better financial aid information...
...spite of the Fox plan's noble intentions, it seems likely that, for the next few years at least, Quad unpopularity will continue. If today's housing survey is any indicator, growing Quad unpopularity of the past few years is continuing unabated, even though Rosovsky approved the package weeks...