Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Citing an assembly poll of more than 4000 undergraduates last year, in which 65 per cent of the respondents said they favored "extended library hours," Nathan Hagen '81, an assembly delegate from Quincy House, said yesterday, "we know for sure that most students want some place to study late at night...
...poll students on the idea of a $10 term-bill addition to pay for the assembly and other student organizations...
Says Cuff Zukin, poll director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics: "We are overconsumed with predicting what will happen. Polls predicting who is going to win the election are worthless. First, they can be very inaccurate at the time of the election be cause they are only accurate at the time they are taken...
...Senate has passed a bill that would deprive the federal bench of the power to decide certain "voluntary" school-prayer cases, and backers hope that the rightward swing signaled by the Reagan victory will persuade the reluctant House to give the measure its blessing too. The latest Gallup poll indicates that 76% of Americans are willing to go even further and approve a constitutional amendment allowing school prayers...
...Georgia is the only unbeaten and untied major college team in the country. Undisputed S.E.C. champions, the team has in hand an invitation to play No. 2-ranked Notre Dame. For good measure, Georgia has replaced Alabama as the top-ranked team in both the Associated Press sportswriters' poll and the United Press International coaches' poll, the first time since World War II that the Bulldogs have led the national rankings. Jubilant Georgians are unfurling bumper stickers that marvel: HOW 'BOUT THEM DAWGS...