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- . . . - 19 September 1969 - , ! ! : SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT e . Although some, perhaps many frphnrcn cntcring American collegcs this month .will, during their coming years be radicalized by the forcer (mostly from the Left) in campur motion, a recent poll conducted by The Eagle, the newspapef of American University indicates that only a few enter the northwcst Washington school with .. ~ a d i c a l intent.' i. 0 The college paper sent questionnaires to all 1,310 entering * freshmen and 574 (43%) rcsponded. Although the poll contained several questions of purely local and non-political interest (for in- stance: How do you feel about coming to A. U. ?--excited, unim- prcrsed, etc. ; and, how do you feel about paying $5.71 for a ycar- book? ), several questions elicited political spectrological rcsults, certainly worthy of note on a campus that exparienccd serious de- monstrations inclqding a building take over laat year. The results tend to indicate (though an unequivocal prediclion is not possible) that the trend is toward conservatism, possibly because of a decline in SDS popularity. * 4 Here are the qucstionnaire results: . WOULD YOU CONSIDER JOINING SDS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY? To tal - Men Women - . . Yhs 3.7% . 1.7% 2.4% Maybc. . 17.9% 34.5% 28.2% NO 72.9% 59.9%- 64.0% No Rosponsc 5.5% 3.9% - a. 6% Thc tota1.rfunrbct of c'Ycr" answers sccrris to mnfitnr * c jicna-rally Hcld apd oft printcd bclic&of Univcrsity administralors that tlrc pru- portion of campus radical a c t i v m g i n the student (and faculty for that matter) population ;r about 2%. . Another interesting factor of - - ' * . 0 ' . .--. * . w .