Thursday, Feb. 15, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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KU Group Plans Series of Polls
Six of the seven members of the Student Opinion Poll Group sponsored by the Young Republicans met last night to discuss the methods they will use to poll KU student opinion.
The group decided to poll 200 students chosen by the University's IBM machines on the basis of a random number table. This method of selection has been approved by the group's faculty adviser, Ray P. Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology and anthropology. Prof. Cuzzort will examine the questions asked in the poll to determine their objectivity and scientific validity.
CRC To Work Against Clauses
Menghini said the first step in attacking the discriminatory clauses must be deleting the clauses. "Then," he said, "the other less formal barriers will break down more easily."
(Continued from page 1) clause in its national constitution," Menghini said. "But we must go gradually."
In other action at the meeting, it was decided to give the All Student Council plans for a drive at KU to raise funds to promote voter registration of Negroes in A'labama and Mississippi.
The money accumulated on such a drive would be given to the Southern Student Fund for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
THE SOUTHERN Student Fund is a new branch of the National Student Association (NSA) set up specifically for this purpose. The money will go to help some 15 staff members who are working in those two states to register the Negro vote.
vote. Menghini said plans for such a drive will be given to the ASC for consideration at their next meeting and then they will be processed for two weeks. He said the money will be sent in the name of the University because he felt sure faculty members and the administration will want to contribute.
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The questions will be answered either by yes or no. This type of question facilitates tabulation in a shorter time than would be necessary for long answers. The members of the group agreed that the questions will have to be carefully constructed if the yes-or-no answers are to be revealing.
The students polled will be contacted by telephone. The group hopes to get the cooperation of the Frosh Hawks, a freshman pep organization, in making the telephone calls.
After perfecting their methods of polling, the group hopes to poll student opinion on complex political and social issues.
Blaine King, Emporia junior and chairman of the group, said that the purposes of the polls will be to "ascertain, condense and publish the student concensus on issues which should be important to the student body."
KING SAID HE thought the information might be useful to the All Student Council and to students representing KU at any national or regional convention.
He said he hoped to "jar some people out of their home-to-class-to-library-to-bar-to-home again rut."
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