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december 9, 1971/the Journal/page three
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Gallop Poll
Coed is okay
(CPS) — The trend toward
coed living on campus is
winning increasing acceptance
among the American people, a
recent Gallup Poll shows.
The survey found 50 per
cent of all persons interviewed
opposed to coed dormitories,
but nearly as many—46 per
cent-saying they would not
mind if a dau^ter of theirs
lived in such a dormitory.
Earlier surveys had shown a
more decisive opposition to the
idea, poll officials said.
The greatest negative reaction .i
came from persons who have
gone to college. 57 per cent
said they would not approve
having a daughter living in a
dormitory housing both male
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and female students and only
40 per cent found no
objection.
On an age basis, older
persons, 50 and over, were the
most opposed to coed living -
57 per cent to 29 per cent.
There was little difference in
the views of those between 30
and 50 (45 per cent opposed,
45 per cent unopposed, 10 per
cent undecided) and those
under 30 (46 per cent
unoppsoed, 44 per cent
opposed).
The survey was based on a
sampling of 1,501 adults, 18
and older, who were questioned
in 300 communities across the
nation during the period June
25-28.
Big Brother alive
Legal grass?
Edmond, Okla. (CPS) - Big
Brother is watching at
Oklahoma’s Central State
University (CSU).
He is, literally. The school’s
students who live in university
housing are subjected to room
checks once a week.'
According to CSU Dean of
Men Alvin Freiberger, the
reason for the weekly
inspection is twofold: (1) a
student might die and his or
her body would remain
undiscovered until someone
smelled it, and (2) if a
student’s room is consistantly
messy, the information is put
on the student’s permanent
record, making it available to
prospective employers.
Rooms are checked for
unmade beds, tidy floors and
empty wastebaskets by floor
counselors. After several
consecutive weeks of
unsatisfactory inspections, the
room’s occupants are apparently
reported to the administration.
Central State rules also
maintain that single students
must live in university housing
until age 24. This rule does
not apply to those students
who are living at home and
commuting to school. Out of
an enrollment of about 11,000,
almost 9,000 students commute
to CSU daily. The remainder
live in dorms and apartments
in Edmond.
Big Brother is watching class
attendance too. At CSU,
attendance is mandatory. Those
students missing more than 30
per cent of their class periods
in any subject receive an
automatic “F,” even if their
classwork is passing.
Even non-students and guests
sre not immune to what
Central State dictates. The rules
state that all visitors must
depart from the dorms by
11:00 p.m.
No oath
no passport
Washington (CPS) — United
States passports will be denied to
those Americans who refuse to
take an oath of allegiance to the
Constitution.
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers made the ruling after a
federal judge ordered him to
decide whether to retain or
abolish the oath. The oath had
been optional due to a 1967
decision by a State Department
legal study group that the oath of
allegiance was not necessarUy
legal.
Judge June Green of the
District of Columbia Federal
District Court made the ruling
that a decision one way or the
other had to be made. The action
was spurred by an American Civil
Liberties Union law suit. The
ACLU has been active in the past
in fighting restrictions on passport
applicants. According to Ralph J.
Temple, legal director of the
Washington chapter of the ACLU,
the organization would fight the
decision.
Although many suits have been
brought by people who, for
religious, political or other
reasons, opposed passport
restrictions, it was noted that the
Supreme Court has never ruled on
passport oaths.
State Department spokesmen
said that the oath derives from
Title 22, Section 212 of the
United States Code, which says:
“No passport sh^ be granted
or issued to or verified for any
other persons than those owing
allegiance, citizens or not, to the
U.S.”
The oath itself reads:
“1 do solemnly swear (or
affirm) that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the
U.S. against all enemies, foreign
and domestic, that I will bear true
allegiance to the same, and I take
this obligation freely, without any
mental reservations or purpose of
evasion, so help me God.”
(CPS) — A green light
recpmmendation on legalizing
the possession of grass in
Canada is the expected result
of a. 22-month study of drugs
by a special Canadian drug
commission.
The five member panel has
been studying the impact of all
drugs from alcohol to heroin,
and in a preliminary report last
year urged government officials
not to impose jail sentences for
the possession of any drug.
Rather, it suggested that slight
monetary fines be imposed as a
form of punishment for
“possession” convictions.
James Moore, executive
secretary of the Commission
has not yet stated that the
speculated recommendation
would be proposed, but said
that the final report, not
expected to exceed 1,000 pages
“will set off a small furor up
here.”
The five commissioners —
including a lawyer, a doctor, a
social worker, a criminologist, a
psychiatrist and a sociologist -
visited 22 Canadian university
campuses and held hearings in
27 cities during the two-year
research. Said Moore: “We
didn’t have a single politician
on our panel.”
ACE study
Attitudes, field linked
Washington, D.C. (CPS) —
Do you believe in statistics?
The American Council on
Education certainly does. And
to document that belief ACE
Research Associate John A.
Creager just released the
grandaddy of all surveys of
student attitudes toward
education and society, and
found, not surprisingly, that
graduate students’ attitudes
often depend on his or her
field of study,
The extensive study,
financed by the council and
the Carnegie Commission on
Higher Education, compiled the
responses of 33,000 graduate
students attending 153
institutions. Creager’s findings
include:
—More than one-third of
all graduate students consider
their studies irrelevant to the
“outside” world, but nearly
three fourths of those surveyed
are satisfied with their
education.
—Nearly two-thirds of
students in graduate school are
there to improve their ability
to change society, but nearly
half said that realistically there
is little an individual can do to
change society.
—While 60 per cent of
business students think the
courts have shown too much
concern for the rights of
“criminals,” only 19 per cent
of the law students agreed.
A majority of those
surveyed agreed that “hippies
represent an important criticism
of American culture,” while
strong minorities thought that
marijuana should be legalized
and a “decline in moral
standards” among youth is a
major problem.
The 190-page report was
compiled from data gathered
during the Spring of 1969, and
include* demographic
background statistics of
students in graduate school.
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