Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the class of '58 have indicated definite areas for improvement in the freshman advisory system, in a Student Council survey of problems of the freshman year. The results of a questionnaire, in which 127 students selected at random participated, showed a significant discrepancy between the practiced frequency, duration, and purpose of advisory meetings, and what the freshmen desired...
When students discovered last full that the Faculty was considering not repeating the program which it had tried last spring, Stephen L. Reynolds '55 formed a library committee from the Student Council to determine the need for library extesions. The committee's report included a survey of poor study conditions in dormitories and the inadequacy of House Libraries...
...precedent for the poll was set in Kirkland House, where a similar survey was taken last month. But, although virtually 90 percent of the response reputedly showed a vehement dislike for chicken saute a lamerango, there has not, as of yet, been any official change in the menu...
...After completing a statewide survey on desegregation, the Texas Poll, a service financed by Texas newspapers, reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will have considerable difficulty enforcing its decision against Jim Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law or finding a way to circumvent it. In other words, said the poll, any attempt at immediate integration will "stir up a storm of protest in Texas verging on public disrespect...
There are 2,000,000 births a year in Japan, and there is probably one abortion for each live birth, the University of Rochester's Dr. Wesley T. Pommerenke reports in Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey. This he believes to be the world's highest abortion rate, though he admits that it is impossible to prove the point statistically. Japan's abortions are legal, or almost so: the law permits them if there is danger to the mother's health or a likelihood that the child will be subnormal. In practice, reports Dr. Pommerenke, it is usually...