Preside Ntial Race Too Close to Call U.S. Parties Await UWM Study
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Inside Keep the Zookeeper P.3 Whodunnit! P.4 UWM actors are pros P.7 Netters get impressive victory P.9 Post poll results P.12 Eating Out P.E1-E8 VoL 25, No. 21 .October 28,1980 The results of the poll, which only questioned Preside ntial race those who intended to vote on Nov. 4, were: Which candidate do you prefer too close to call in the U.S. presidential election? by Gary Behlow within the margin of error for the The poll was conducted be Jimmy Carter 38.2% and James E. Piekarski poll, and therefore the race could tween Oct. 24 and Oct. 26 Ronald Reagan .30.9% ofThePoststaff be considered even. by nine members of The Post The outcome of the presidential staff. John Anderson 9.5% President Jimmy Carter holds race is even more in doubt Only those respondants who Other 0.7% a. slight lead over Ronald Reagan because of the large number of were of voting age and who said Undecided ......... 20.7% in the Milwaukee metropolitan voters who are yet undecided, they intended to vote were polled. area, according to a telephone poll the televised debate between the The Metroplan area is the by The Post. two opponents Tuesday night Wisconsin Telephone Company's Which candidate do you prefer The poll also revealed that and the uncertainty of develop service area which consists of all Senator Gaylord Nelson is leading ments in Iran which may have of Milwaukee County and adja in the U.S. senatorial election? Republican challenger Robert possible effects on voters. cent parts of Waukesha, Wash Kasten by a comfortable margin Nelson's lead over Kasten is ington and Ozaukee Counties. Gaylord Nelson 38.0% in their U. Senatorial race. statistically significant because it The Milwaukee Metroplan area Robert Kasten 26.0% • Despite the lead Cater holds is beyond the margin of error is a rough approximation of the Undecided.. 36.0% over Reagan ,vthe difference is still for the sample. [turn to p. 12, col. 3] U.S. parties await UWM study by Sue Hensel they are strong or weak, what they do time-consuming visits in January of 1979 The information so far has not surprised ofThePoststaff and how they relate to other party units and said the busy officials were sur them, and they have indeed discovered and to elected officials," Cotter said. prisingly warm and receptive. that party organizations are stronger, A $300,000 grant has been awarded The results will give a comprehensive but in different ways, they said. For to UWM political science professors analysis of the strength of party organi Cotter, who was assistant director of instance, "They are increasingly wrapped John Bibby, Cornelius Cotter and James zations today, assess changes in them the Commission on Civil Rights under up with relating to state and county Gibson to study party organizations. since 1960 and analyze the impact of President Dwight Eisenhower and John organizations. They like to play a The grant, from the National Science party reform and policies on them. Kennedy, spent three years scrounging coordinative role. Also, they have become • Foundation, is one orthe largest in the The men, who- meet two or three budget and staff data from 1960-80. full-time, year round businesses and don't history of American political science. times a week and daily in the summer, Presently they have 50 percent of the just spring up in election year," Cotter Their research began in 1977 when also collaborate with Robert Huckshorn data. said. Cotter questioned the strength of party of Florida Atlantic University. organizations. With party identification They all have extensive political science Cotter said "finding information from declining, the popular belief was that backgrounds and synthesize their the '60s is like studying medieval The study is beneficial to UWM for party organizations were also weakening. practical knowledge with "mind boggl history." What is there is hard to find a number of reasons aside from the Cotter said he believed they were actually ing" amounts of data, Gibson said. and often in bad condition. obvious publicity it will bring, and jobs growing stronger and approached his Although they work individually, they it has created for work-study and graduate colleagues with that notion. don't have specific roles. Gibson, how Mailed questionnaires students, Bibby said. "Some students What began as talk in 1977 became a ever, is surverying data, and his office The men also obtained information by think professors can't teach and do several hundred page research proposal is literally overflowing with computer mailing questionnaires to every former research but actually they bring into their a year later. By 1978, NSF agreed printouts. He also supervises the gradu party chairman since 1960 and to every classes newer insights and are more to fund them. Today, according to ate and work-study students involved in county chairman. They also read party intellectually aware. We now have a Gibson, "A good portion of the field the project. records and doctoral dissertations. better grasp of what we are teaching.'' is holding its breath for the results of one of the most important studies Interviewed officials Although Cotter and Bibby wrote an in political science." Bibby, who was the executive director article for the Political Science Quarterly Party roles of the 1976 Republican National Conven and presented a paper at a political Gibson agreed. "Smaller colleges like The purpose of the study is to deter tion Platform Committee, traveled across science meeting, they are '"still in the Marquette are teaching obsolete material. mine the. role of party organizations the country interviewing state and process of developing data and will be We're teaching the most recent in society. "We are interested in whether national officials. He finished three busy for another three to four years. knowledge." r by Kathy Rogge Anas Doolittle also said that clocks ofThePoststaff are vulnerable to vandalism. "Bolton Hall has had many When Merrill Hall's renovation problems with vandalism towards is completed in 1982, something clocks," he said. Since class will be left out. rooms are not secured, it is There will be no clocks in the difficult to protect clocks. classrooms. * • If you' re a chronic clock watcher For students who have already or a person obsessed with punc attended classes in Merrill, the tuality, don't worry. According to change won't be anything new. Classes communication department Chair Many of the classrooms remain - man Robert Doolittle, "If clocks as they were at the turn of the are not there, they are not century, when Merrill was built. noticed." without "It doesn't matter to me," The decision to exclude class room clocks was made by the one communications student said. communication department, "People have an internal time clocks which is housed in Merrill. Doo mechanism anyway." Another little explained that a faculty student wasn't so agreeable. educational purpose and their ex campus, he said. If there is a "That means the teachers will committee that reviewed the plans pense is not necessary," he storm or other electrical difficulty, for the new building found little have total control over how long added. it takes time and money to put they keep us in class," he said. reason for having classroom, Another reason for not putting the clocks back into shape. clocks. clocks in the classrooms is to "Beginning and ending times cut the renovation expense, Doo "Wear a watch!" the first are announced in class," Doolittle little said. He explained that There have already been student replied. "Either that or said. Also, clocks are a pro clocks and their maintenance are problems with the clocks in the never let your teacher forget that t*8t blem to some students, he said, costly. newly remodeled Holton Hall. well-arranged class time is the because they are placed in highly For example, clocks are con Some are fast, some are slow, and surest mark of a well-arranged visible places. 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