>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:36:04 -0700 (PDT)
>From: EVERS@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU
>Subject: stanford libs/student survey

The results of the Stanford Libertarians' annual survey
(taken at the Freshman Activites Fair on campus).

The following information represents the results from our campus survey
taken on September 26th [1995] at the activities fair for new students.  We
had a total of 437 students take the 10-question political quiz.  The
results are remarkably similar to the poll results from the 1993 Activities
Fair, when we managed to survey 515 students.

Political label     number of students
(from survey map)   scoring in label    percentage

1995
    Authoritarian        31               7.1%
    Centrist            232              53.1%
    Conservative         16               3.7%
    Liberal              98              22.4%
    Libertarian          60              13.7%

1993
    Authoritarian        33               6.4%
    Centrist            278              54.0%
    Conservative         15               2.9%
    Liberal             116              22.5%
    Libertarian          73              14.2%

Individual Questions              - - - 1995 - - -    - - - 1993 - - -
    personal issues:                Y     M     N       Y     M     N
 1) No draft                      67.5% 21.3% 11.2%   67.6% 20.2% 12.2%
 2) No Censorship                 60.2% 30.0%  9.8%   61.8% 28.4%  9.9%
 3) No sex regulations            59.7% 27.7% 12.6%   59.4% 25.2% 15.3%
 4) Repeal drug laws              19.5% 37.5% 43.0%   15.3% 36.1% 48.5%
 5) Free immigration/emigration   24.0% 35.7% 40.3%   22.9% 37.5% 39.6%

    economic issues:
 6) No farm subsidies/quotas      33.9% 41.2% 24.9%   33.4% 43.3% 23.3%
 7) Free trade, no tariffs        47.8% 39.1% 13.0%   43.9% 37.7% 18.5%
 8) Repeal minimum wage laws      10.8% 20.6% 68.7%    8.2% 18.5% 73.4%
 9) End Taxes                      5.5% 16.3% 78.3%    6.4% 14.0% 79.6%
10) No non-US defense spending    48.1% 39.1% 12.8%   58.5% 32.4%  9.1%

Full text of questions (answers are Y-yes, M-maybe, N-no):
 1) Military service should be voluntary.  (No draft)
 2) Government should not control TV, radio, or the press.
 3) Repeal regulations on sex by consenting adults.
 4) Drug laws do more harm than good.  Repeal them.
 5) Let people immigrate and emigrate freely.
 6) Farmers should farm without quotas or subsidies
 7) People are better off with free trade than with tariffs.
 8) Minimum wage laws eliminate jobs.  Repeal them.
 9) End taxes.  Pay for services voluntary.
10) Europeans & Japanese should pay for their own defense.