Eisenhower's Faculty Prefers Truman for President, Poll Shows

Columbia faculty members favor President Truman and Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois over their own president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, for the November election, The Columbia Daily Spectator recently announced. The student newspaper obtained this result from a straw vote taken last week.

Although the Republicans, with a faction of 16 percent, favored Eisenhower 2 to 1 over any other G.O.P. contestant, they were outnumbered by the Democrats with 31 percent. Fifty-three percent of the faculty voted independent.

At Yale, however, the three upper classes chose Eisenhower for president, favoring him with 40 percent of their votes. The Elis ranked Senators Taft and Douglas second and third, rating Truman fourth with only four percent of cast Republican ballots. the votes.

Forty-six percent of the Yale students who cast ballots voted along Republican lines.