Ike Captures Nat Sci Votes In Straw Poll

Tabulations of the University election poll revealed yesterday that College students in the Natural Sciences voted heavily for President Eisenhower while concentrators in Social Studies and Humanities favored Governor Stevenson.

At the same time, College statistics indicated the heaviest proportion for Ike in the freshman class, 3 to 2. Sophomore statistics reversed the proportion for Stevenson, with 522 votes to 382 for the President. Stevenson polled 390 votes among Juniors, compared to the Presidents's 351, and 387 votes among Seniors to 289 for Eisenhower.

Among Natural Science concentrators, the Republicans took 563 votes compared to 478 for Stevenson, or 54 percent. Stevenson polled 629 out of 1216 Social Science votes, or 52 percent, and 575 of 1055 votes of Humanities concentrators, or 54 percent.

Heavy Sophomore Vote

The College totals reveal a sizeable increase in political participation from the freshman to the sophomore years. Then, apathy seems to take hold, as indicated by the drop-off in junior and senior participation. The figures also showed the sophomores to be strongest for Stevenson, and freshmen most dramatically behind Eisenhower. Juniors gave Stevenson 52 percent of their votes, while the figure for Seniors was 57 percent for Adlai.