SPECIAL REPORT

OPINION ON CAMPUS

In the next few pages, we report the results of the follow-up survey of the
college Class of '98 promised to you just after we first polled them as
freshmen back in 1995 (our September 25 issue). Early last year, we mailed
the same questionnaire to those students, seniors by then, as the final
phase of a project for the Educational Reviewer designed to contrast
political, cultural, and religious attitudes upon college entry and nearer
graduation. Our text does just that-contrast first-year and fourth-year
responses. The tables display the
1995/freshmen percentages in a row labeled "freshmen" while those of
1998/seniors are in the row below, bold and italicized. Fractional
percentages, which had been dropped in 1995, were rounded last year. In both
surveys, the percentage not replying to each question was omitted.

As in 1995, the twelve colleges and universities included were: Liberty
University in Lynchburg, Va.; The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.; Marquette
University in Milwaukee, Wis.; the University of California at Irvine; the
University of Indiana at Bloomington; the University of California at Los
Angeles; the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; three Ivies-Dartmouth,
Yale, and Brown; the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and Stanford
University in Palo Alto, Calif.

[...] OPENNESS [...] Seniors on seven campuses came much closer to approval
(ranging from 42 percent to 48 percent) of legalizing marijuana (Question
19) than they did as freshmen. But opponents still held the only majorities
(Liberty, The Citadel, Marquette), though that's two fewer than in
1995-UC-Irvine and Indiana slipped to pluralities in opposition (48 percent
and 46 percent).

At all twelve schools, majorities ranging from 72 percent to 94 percent
opposed legalizing all drugs (Question 20). That is indistinguishable from
their 1995 response.

Indicate your views on the following political proposals for the United
States by writing in a letter signifying the following: A. Definitely in
favor. B. Somewhat in favor. C. Indifferent/no opinion. D. Somewhat opposed.
E. Definitely opposed.

19. Legalizing marijuana

A B C D E
Liberty
freshmen 8 0 0 5 86
seniors 6 4 4 6 79
The Citadel
freshmen 4 23 21 18 32
seniors 11 10 7 9 63
Marquette
freshmen 13 19 18 17 31
seniors 8 15 11 18 48
UC-Irvine
freshmen 4 6 9 25 54
seniors 17 17 18 11 37
Indiana
freshmen 15 20 9 31 23
seniors 17 21 16 11 35
UCLA
freshmen 11 18 24 8 39
seniors 20 27 20 8 25
U.Wisconsin
freshmen 16 23 12 15 32
seniors 18 25 14 10 33
Dartmouth
freshmen 18 21 16 13 30
seniors 22 22 17 10 29
U. Michigan
freshmen 18 21 9 16 34
seniors 17 31 15 15 22
Stanford
freshmen 18 13 24 11 32
seniors 13 29 21 14 22
Yale
freshmen 16 20 15 12 35
seniors 17 25 20 11 27
Brown
freshmen 15 17 22 15 29
seniors 23 23 14 16 24

20. Legalizing all drugs

A B C D E
Liberty
freshmen 0 4 0 4 90
seniors 2 1 2 4 90
The Citadel
freshmen 1 6 5 6 80
seniors 1 2 4 5 88

Marquette
freshmen 0 9 4 15 70
seniors 0 1 7 7 85
UC-Irvine
freshmen 3 5 6 17 67
seniors 10 3 8 25 54
Indiana
freshmen 2 3 6 13 75
seniors 7 4 8 13 68
UCLA
freshmen 2 6 15 14 61
seniors 5 11 6 16 62
U.Wisconsin
freshmen 3 11 5 14 65
seniors 6 9 13 8 64
Dartmouth
freshmen 3 13 2 19 61
seniors 2 8 3 17 70
U. Michigan
freshmen 3 5 2 20 68
seniors 3 15 8 16 58
Stanford
freshmen 8 14 4 15 57
seniors 2 7 7 23 60
Yale
freshmen 4 11 5 16 62
seniors 6 7 5 25 57
Brown
freshmen 9 16 1 14 58
seniors 3 10 8 17 62
[...]