Elusive Pollsters Promise Dollars

A mysterious organization based in Minneapolis, calling itself "National Campus Poll," has solicited the opinions of several Harvard students through the U. S. mail, offering them one dollar in return.

The letter the students received with the questionnaire states that this organization is conducting "a survey of student attitudes concerning the American political and economic system." It said the students had been selected at random.

Students are asked to indicate whether they agree or disagree with nine statements. Five of the statements concern the "New Left," one the "intellectual integrity" of college professors, one the relative effectiveness of government as opposed to "individual action and private enterprise," and one the relationship between "economic freedom" and "political liberty."

One statement, for example, suggests, "The things that the New Left militants are now doing tend to advance individual freedom."

The purpose and origin of the poll are a total mystery. The return address on the questionnaire is a box in the Minneapolis main post office. There is no telephone listing there for anything called "National Campus Poll"; someone named E. W. Pryor, who signed the letter accompanying the questionnaire, is not listed there either.