PAGE SIX![ THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1950 PAGE SIX THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5,1950 MATH MAPS WAY: Survey Center Uses Random Sampling By DONNA HENDLEMAN Selecting people to interview in a nation-wide research survey sample is highly scientific business for the University Survey Research Center. Man-on-the-street tactics are strictly ignored by the University researchers, who employ a more complicated but truly dependable method of obtaining sample sub- jects for a survey. * * * KNOWN AS the random sample method, the process is worked out through a series of mathematical calculations. These calculations are set up in order to provide in- terviews with a cross section of the American public. Thus, when one of the 200 interviewers employed by the Center finally knocks on some- one's door, he does so because his path has been specifically marked out and directed for him by the workers in the Cen- NOVEMBER ISSUE: Generation Staff To Accept Material for Fall Publication The senior staff of Generation is now accepting material for publication in the Fall '51 issue, which will appear in November, according to Managing Editor Louis Orlin, Grad. The articles should be turned in at the 'Ensian office in the Stu- dent Publications Building. "This semester," Orlin said, "the magazine is increasing its content value. Up-to-date articles will ap- pear on contemporary problems, such as the place of the atomic bomb in our society or the trends of labor-a type of material that appeals to an American citizen." "A well-written humor depart- ment will also be initiated," he added.' The usual features on art, mu-! sic, fiction and drama will be in- cluded in this third issue. Design, as last year, will play an import- ant part in the magazine's make- up. ter's sampling office in Old West Hospital. According to Mrs. Dawn Hen- dricks, administrative assistant, the random sample method is the only dependable way to obtain a good sample survey. It has been developed so that people from every segment of life will be in- cluded in a sample, she said. THE METHOD, simplified, works like this: The country is divided into 66 groups, or strata, based upon the density of population in a given area. The first 12 groups are met- ropolitan areas, and automatically fall into the sample. Randomly, a county is chosen to represent one of each of the remaining 54 groups. Then one to five towns, or possibly a rural area, are chosen from each county. More mathematical and socio- logical devices finally get the research workers assigned to blocks in each town, and then, to dwelling units on a block. Rural sections are mapped out accord- ing to population and then treated as if they were city blocks. "After we have mapped out the areas for interviewing," Mrs. Hendricks explained, "we contact the interviewers in their districts and supply them with the ad- dresses." Scattered through every district of the country, the interviewers are teachers, housewives, and part- time business workers. * * * IN ORDER THAT they will have as little trouble as possible when they go to an unknown area, all statistics which may prove helpful are available for study in the sampling office. Often aerial pho- tographs of a chosen area are ob- tained, and roads, railways, and important land sites are mapped for the field workers. The interviewer is given the job of listing the houses on the specified blocks. These lists are returned to the sampling office, and when a survey is to be made, addresses are selected by ran- dom from the lists and sent to the interviewer. He is allowed no substitutions, and sometimes finds it necessary to return to a house several times before he contacts the residents. SWEDISH LANDSLIDE-Houses and sidewalks are uprooted in industrial Surte, Sweden, following a landslide that crushed some 40 homes and moved a railroad 100 yards. Police said only one person is known to have been killed. Plans for South Quad Curtail Residents' Outdoor Recreation Adequate outdoor recreation space will be a problem for South Quad residents next year. According to the architect's plans of the Quad there will be no courtyards or lawns large enough for ball-playing, and ac- cording to Peter A. Ostafin, of the sociology department, resident director of the West Quad, the Students To Take PharmacyTrip Junior and senior pharmacy stu- dents will take a two-day field trip to Indianapolis, Ind., in No- vember, Dean Charles H. Stock- ing of the College of Pharmacy has announced. 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OSTAFIN REPORTED that an elaborate educational, social, and intra-mural program will be plan- ned for the South Quad houses. "Good recreation facilities in the building will compensate for the lack of outdoor space," Ostafin said. The ninth floor, which is the roof of the building, will have sundecks and a recreation hall which-will run almost the com- plete length of the floor. This room will be furnished as a semi-gymnasium with ping- pong tables, weights, and other equipment. Four music practice rooms, a darkroom for photographers, quar- ters for house and Quad newspa- pers and small recreation rooms for card and chess games will oc- cupy the ground floor. Rare Medical Books Shown By Library On current exhibition at the General Library is a collection of medical rarities, according to Ella Hymans, curator of the Rare Book Room. The exhibition was planned to help celebrate the 100th anniver- sary of the University Medical School, she said. Included in the collection is a copy of "De Fabrica" by Vesalius who is considered the founder of the science of human anatomy, Miss Hymans explained. Medical authorities consider this one of the most important medical books in the world. Among other rare books being shown are some of the first boks on medicine ever printed, works of Ambrose Pare, famous French army surgeon, and old English medical texts. In addition there are first edi- tions of the works of Edward Jen- ner, inscribed by the author, in- cluding two rare circulars explain- ing his methods of smallpox vac- cine innoculations, she concluded. Now...at OFFICE EQUIPMENT you get this great ROYAL PORTABLE Lang, Alumni Launch Drive For phoenix By VERNON EMERSON With a 10,000 man alumni army of fund raisers, Chester H. Lang, '15, has started the drive for the $6,500,000 goal of the Phoenix Project. Lang, who has the job of seeing the campaign through to its finsh, has a list of more than 120,000 alumni to be contacted by his do- nation collecting squads. "Even with all the help we'll have, I suppose we will miss a lot of people whose names aren't on our lists," Lang said. SOME VOLUNTEER workers throughout the country are still being organized to contact per- sonally all alumni that can be found. Divided into 435 local commit- tees scattered over the nation in proportion to the number of graduates in various areas, the committeemen will meet once a week to report their progress and map out future contacts. In addition to the drive here, nearly 4,000 alumni in 32 foreign countries will be asked to contri- bute. In the United States local chair- men have organized their commit- tees into 14 regions along the lines of the Alumni Association's set-up, Lang explained. And each regional chairman appoints a state chair- man. * * * "MICHIGAN'S county chairmen have about as big a job to do as other state directors," he pointed out. "Five of the 14 regions are in this state, Detroit being a region by itself." Langffigured that 45% of Uni- versity alumni are in Michigan. Some team captains on the "firing line" are lagging a little in turning in names of their workers, he said. But, he con- tinued, we have sent out 10,000 workers' kits, and expect them all to be used. "We would like to see alumni turn in the whole Phoenix goal of $6,500,000. But we've set up some other committees to make sure we reach our target." . Lang and the executive commit- tee have lined up, and in some cases already begun, drives to cover foundations, students' par- ents, faculty, University employes, Ann Arbor businesses and stu- dents. "It's nothing less than a six ring circus," Lang said. 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