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...Restrictive labor union practices? Partially, but Fortune magazine's survey of the Chicago area, the stronghold of the building trade unions, concluded that only three percent of the cost of a new house was chargeable to "make-work rules." Unscrupulous contractors? Again a partial answer, but contractors are paying about 100 percent more for their materials than they consider a fair price, and even the best of them have difficulty in building a decent house that sells for less than $10,000. And the people who need houses haven't got that kind of money...
Religion. "Thirty-six percent spontaneously define religion in terms of beliefs, faith and God; 32% spontaneously define it in terms of conduct; 14% spontaneously define it by criticising it." Mass-Observation reports "a slight tendency" for more educated people to define religion in terms of belief and the less educated in terms of behavior...
...combat social apathy here (only 25 percent of the current graduating class took part in extra-curricular activities), the New Orleans Senior called for the establishment of "a central building to house and encourage these activities...
Temporary officers of the HYD include Henry A. Mendelsohn '48, president; Lazare Nesin '48, vice-president; and Sydney V. James '50, secretary. The group claims a total membership of twenty-six undergraduates, approximately one-half of of one percent of the student body...
...survey reached 80 percent of undergraduates taking General Ed courses. Forty-two percent of them judged that the program had "very definitely" lived up to their idea of "what a General Education course should be," while 37 percent replied "fairly well...