Sampling Poll On Expenses Begins Today

First clear indication of the extent of financial woes among students of the University will come from a Student Council Finance Poll that beginning today will probe into the expenses, resources, and money difficulties of every tenth man in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Designed with an eye to measuring how well the veterans' subsistence allowance in meeting college expenses, the poll is an outgrowth of requests from Dean Hanford, and its results will be used largely in determining scholarship policy towards former service men.

It will also afford an indication of how many students would be forced out of school by a drastic overall rise in college expenses.

The American Veterans Committee and the Liberal Union have joined forces with the Student Council Finance Committee, and among them have mustered approximately 40 interviewers who will carry the small, four-page questionnaire to each of the men selected at random by the Committee. Commuters will receive and should return their form by mail.

Advice from the department of Psychology and the University Committee on Scholarships, as well as suggestions from the three student organizations actually earying out the canvass, determined the use of the "random sample poll," and also the make-up and queries on the questionnaire, which is designed to fit University computing machines. Final results will be available in three weeks.