22. Regarding the intensity of your concern with religion and politics (taking these terms in the broadest sense), would you say that you are
112 equally concerned with both; 92 more concerned with religion; 103 more concerned with politics?
25. With what political party are you affiliated, either in spirit or in actual membership?
89 Republican; 93 Democratic; 118 None; 8 Other.
26. Since you entered Harvard, have your political views changed:
30 from liberal to more conservative; 77 from conservative to more liberal; 39 from liberal to more liberal; 19 from conservative to more conservative; 138 not at all.
27. If your views have changed, what factors have influenced you (check two or three most important)?
83 lectures and/or assigned reading in courses; 34 influence of friends; 5 personal contact with faculty members; 21 increased independent reading; 4 independence from parental ideas; 24 increased thinking about political questions; 1 Other.
31. Do you think the concept of the national state has become so dangerously anachronistic that the U.S. should take the risks involved in surrendering some of her sovereignty, in a serious attempt at achieving a strong international federation or world government?
36 yes; 136 no; 30 indifferent.
32. IF the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union OR surrender to the Soviet Union, would you favor
215 war; 82 surrender?
34. Do you think a film should ever not be shown at a commercial theatre or over television if certain religious or ethnic groups formally object to it?
217 no film should ever be suppressed under any of these circumstances; 87 under certain but not all of the above circumstances; 1 whenever a substantial religious or racial group does not want a film shown, it should not be shown.
36. I do not believe a member of the Communist Party should be permitted to hold any teaching position in any American college or university:
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