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Show Public Opinion Poll Tb Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday. September 19, 1976 Demos Nab Favorite Role in House Tests By Dr. George Gallup If Jimmy Carter wins the PRINCETON, N.J. presidential election, present indications are that he will take office with an overwhelmingly Democratic House of Representatives. The 1976 Campaign for the 435 House seats opens with The Democrats enjoying a substan-- 1 L tial 57 to 34 percent lead. ' The current figures closely F ( FJs match those recorded in the ! 1974 election when Democrats swept the House, winning 291 seats to the GOPs 144. Present findings suggest that the GOP is likely to make only a modest recovery at best from the election of 1974. ! off-ye- - Gradeflation today, which party would you like to see wrin in this congressional district. The Democratic party or the Republican party? (If undecided: "As of today, do you lean more to the Democratic party or to the Republican party?) Democrats have held a majority of seats in the House during 40 of the last 44 years. Republicans held a majority in the House in 8 and again In but not in the 22 years since then. 1946-191- 1952-195- A key factor in the Democrats' commanding lead at present is their partys advantage in the voters' minds as the best party for prosperity. Vote lor Democratic Republican Other UndockM As reported earlier, about twice as many voters believe the Democratic party, as opposed to the Republican party, is better able to keep the country prosperous. The vote is 47 to 24 percent with the balance seeing no difference or not expressing an opinion. 2 Eighty-fiv- per- e cent at Amherst were making the same thing. 3 Seventy-fiv- e per- cent of all students at Washington, D.C.s American University Yorks East Side parents are on New whose relief, then the professor had better be an East Sidcr who has been drawing food stamps himself. Minor years entering freshmen have less ability and less knowledge than did those of the previous year. Conclusion Therefore, : college grades should be going down. Grades Up Instead, theyre going of a letter up. By one-ha- lf grade since 1960, according to a Wall Street Jyumal article by Professor M. M. Pressley of tfe University of North (Carolina "radeflation, he calls . I call it. "Outrageous, Here are some of his iTore lurid findings: 1 Eighty-on- e oi Vassar percent under- - parently happening to the honor grade in college which is simultaneously happening to the $10 bill in the supermarket: pretty soon its not going to be worth a plugged nickel. Whats going on? Have all the professors suddenly been overtaken by the Santa Claus Syndrome? Not Im at all. speculating, of course, but knowing my fellow professors, Id bet money, marbles or chalk that theyre being bugged by the following bogeymen: First, increasing doubts are being bruited about that the instructors value systems and middle class ethics qualify him to give anybody with a different background a Dr. Iwu'crty Otherwise, he "cant re late to the life style and cultural mores" of the student, and therefore cant give him an appropriate grade. Ethnic Members Second, ethnic minority members must be "positively reinforced so that they will stay in school and help the institution uphold its image in the jaundiced eyes of HEW. You cant see that they do this if youre going to flunk em. Then there are the ladies, God bless them. It simply wouldnt do to give one of them a C or a D unless, of course, you want to hear a lot of Lib lip every time you Vote In South Meet. Democratic Ropubltcen Other M pet. 1 pet. IS pet. Undecided ConvrMt Vote Outside South Democratic Republican Other 31 M pet. I pet. pet. 7 pet. 1 Undecided venture into the faculty lounge. After all, how many times can you hear those muttermgs about male chauvinist piggery and the icy whisperings about "veiled sexism without having your nerves snap like overtimed piano wires? This whole r The Gallup Toll concentrates on House races since all 435 seats are contested in each national election, Vtwt whereas the contests for the Senate are limited to of the seats. d Otff (tepdfTmerit rt am mperttturt ee tiqn pt nun brand mihutnenu It a f prpven jvk: one-thir- Moreover, the House races provide a more of party strength, nationally. accurate measure Since it is not feasible to make surveys in each congressional district, no exact count can be made of the number of House seats that will be won. National percentages offer a good guide, but they cannot be translated directly into numbers of seats. and the burnings of the Sick Sixties, a time when it was physically unsafe to give low grades to anybody except conservative WASPs. It surfaced first at San Francisco State College, where an administrative investigation of the early 70s found that the noters and the arsonists had been rewarded for their lawbreaking by their leftist professors with As and Bs in subjects having nothing whatever to do with either civil rights or the Vietnamese war. Findings for this report are based on in person interviews with 1,084 likely voters out of a total sample of 1,554 adults, 18 and older, in mere than 300 sampling locations. The interviewing was conducted between Aug. 27 and 30. button-down-coll- ar All premise. Prt. pet. table: bit started during the riots Major premise: "College grades are intended to reflect accurately the ability and the knowledge of college students in specific subject areas. JT pet. M pet. 1 Congmt grade at all. In other words, if hes going to grade a student from Nationwide (13-stat- Here arc the questions asked in the latest survey, and the national findings: "If the elections for Congress were being held College Grades Defy Natural Law graduates were making As or Bs in 1974. . The regional distribution of the vote shows the Democratic party holding its traditional advantage at the cot.gressional level, winning 60 percent of the South vote, to 24 percent for the GOP. total The Democrats lead outside the South as well, but the margin is not so great, as shown by the following Outrageous By Dr. Max Rafferty The idea of a perpetual motion machine violates one of the fundamental laws i of nature, true enough, but no more than the recent nse of college grades throughout the land 'violates all laws of common sense. Here's the way a sane syllogism on this subject would have to be constructed: Cwu FASHION PLACE MURRAY 262-668- 9 (Copyright) STOREWIDE ANNIVERSARY e Like a fever, the aberration should have passed. The fact that it didnt indicates that it has become a bad habit which had darned well better be broken if our institutions of higher learning are to recognize in the future any distinction between excellence and mediocrity, that is. low-grad- (Copyright, 1976, Times) Los DOWNTOWN COTTONWOOD VALLEY FAIR 23 GIANT SCREEN CONSOLE DIAGONAL 100 Angeles SOLID-STAT- E The BEXLEY H2320W You should know New York Times, last Tuesday, in an editorial enjjtled "The Arab Boycott, addressed itself to legislation now being considered by the U.S. Congress, wtSch in effect would either penalize American companies or prohibit them from doing business with andor in Arab countries. We applaud The Titles for examining the implications of this legislation; moreover, there are portions of the editorial wifli which we fully agree. We agree, for example, that a boycott whose 'motivation is solely religious discrimination is repugnant and unacceptable to the American way of lif$ The Arab nations insist the boycott is not based orgreligion.) Indeed, there is already a body of U.S. laf which makes such discrimination illegal, and wsupport those laws. We think The Times has made a contribution ir. speaking out on this issue, and in beginning an examination of what sort of legislation, if any, is two-fappropriate. The purpose of this message is to in and the debate 10 second, prfirst, join eset more fully the consequences to the American p&ple and the American economy if pending legis-lafio- n o: becomes law. First, some relevant facts: Fact No. 1 . America imports roughly 40 Walnut. Distinctive Energy Saving Chassis Could the legislation make it impossible for American ships to call at Arab ports? We think so. Could the legislation lead to inadvertent of criminal law by individuals in U.S. We think so. of the of this imported oil J Fact No. 2. About one-thir- d cdfnes from Arab countries, and this proportion is grSwing everyday. 5 Fact No. 3. Even if this country develops and will permit fuller developirrxplements policies that ment of our energy resources, America will still bipome increasingly reliant on Arab oil, particularly inZhe next decade. There is simply no way around thSt fact of life. American economic growth, America jobs, the American lifestyle-- all will depend to a growing degree on energy from the Arab nations. alAgainst this background, the Senate has now is considering, ready passed, and the House argendments to the Export Administration Act. We h&e studied the proposed legislation. And we have mSjor questions as to its impact. For example: Could the legislation make it impossible for American companies to import Arab oil into the United States? We think so. Could the legislation make it impossible for Afterican manufacturers to sell goods to Arab c&ntries? We think so. Could the legislation make it impossible for Awerican banks to finance trade between the U.S. ami Aiab countries? We think so. Power Sentry Voltage Regulating System Brilliant Chromacok r Picture Special ANNIVERSARY Solid-Sta- te PRICE TOO LOW TO ADVERTISE ONLY M H5S4W Tuning System Beautiful Simulated Walnut Finish " 100 B&UI lolkJ-Stct- e FortebbTV Solid-StaAMFM Stereo FM with Record Changer. Allegro 1000 speaker system Simulated wood cabinet with Walnut Finish. te Tuner-Amplifi- er ' LOW PRICE! BIG VALUE! MPMMeui wtoiov ZENITH QUALITY We believe that this issue h3s such vast foreign policy and security implications that legislation should oniy be enacted after the fullest debate and only after adequate reflection on the implications and consequences of what is best for the United States. More than that, we want your voice heard. If you would like a copy of this legislation, write to Box B, Mobil Oil Corporation, 150 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. Read it. Then ask your Con- gressman what he thinks. Wed even like to hear his views, after he relays them back to you. This may be among our more unpopular messages. But it is better to focus on consequences now, rather than try later to salvage something out of economic chaos. Please dont think that we are blind or insensitive to the emotions involved on a I sides of these issues. What we are pleading for is that the Issues be fully debated. To enact legislation as amendments to export-contror tax laws, parwith in an and election less than adeyear, ticularly to as and leflection debate quate consequences, will not be in America's best interests. FROSTCLEAR FOODMASTER imm Gibson iteezers :r (I Sliwswr DELUXE NOV AS SIDE LOW AS ol jj2088 DELUXE 1 3 CU. FT. 19.0 CU. 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