Poll Is Poor Diversity Check

To the editors:

Relevance check, please? The phrase, "As in previous years, this year's council is overwhelmingly white and male" is all you have to say on diversity ("Council Races Suffer From Low Voter Turnout," Oct. 13).

At risk of sounding like a Salient dittohead, what about diversity in viewpoints? Did the phone poll of 32 council members ask how many are cold-blooded Stewartian pragmatists and how many are bleeding-heart activist commies? RANDALL W. LUCAS '01   Oct. 14, 1998