5% Of Students Respond to Poll About Seminars

Former freshman seminar participants have returned nearly 65 per cent of the questionnaires sent them last month by the Faculty committee appointed to review the seminar program.

Data from the questionnaires; proposed with the help of IBM machines, will be added to information collected from reports seminar members prepared at the end of their freshman years. The committee, headed by John J. Conway, waster of Leverett House, is expected to admit its report to the Faculty someone in February.

At present, 284 students are participating in the seminar program and some more will be added next semester. These students were chosen from about freshman who submitted almost 700 fractions for places in the 40 different groups, an increase of 10-15 per cent for last year.

Poll Responses Representative

Byton Stookey, Jr. associate director of Advanced Standing, said a sample check of the 35 per cent of the student who did not return the questionnaires felt their feelings paralleled the responses received. He also pointed out of more than 90 per cent of the students responded to either this poll or to one taken at the end of their freshman year.

He order to obtain a more comprehend picture of the program, the committee sent out an equal number of questionnaires to students who did not participate in the seminars. The reactions of the group, plus information from the admissions folders and college academic records of the seminar participants are being processed for the committee.

Poll Responses Representative

Byton Stookey, Jr. associate director of Advanced Standing, said a sample check of the 35 per cent of the student who did not return the questionnaires felt their feelings paralleled the responses received. He also pointed out of more than 90 per cent of the students responded to either this poll or to one taken at the end of their freshman year.

He order to obtain a more comprehend picture of the program, the committee sent out an equal number of questionnaires to students who did not participate in the seminars. The reactions of the group, plus information from the admissions folders and college academic records of the seminar participants are being processed for the committee.