Continuing in our fun-time, bipartisan election season-inspired look at past politicking on the Plains (see Ted Kennedy and a stuffed Auburn Tiger here, the colorful Auburn student reaction to the Iran hostage crisis here)…
In the summer of 1972, The Plainsman asked Auburn students about their sex lives—nine percent didn’t know whether they were virgins or not (or at least I suppose that’s how “no opinion” could be read)—and their drug habits—two percent may not have inhaled or were either so stoned they didn’t know they were smoking pot (or at least I suppose that’s how “no opinion” could be read) and their church attendance and their thoughts on abortion and who they wanted to see they wanted to see on the presidential ballot and all other stuff. “Approximately 422″ responded—roughly three percent of Auburn’s enrollment. So, you know…
Related: Lee Corso’s 1972 letter to Shug.
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Wow. The answers are about what I expected, but the questions themselves say a lot more. In today’s political climate, Nixon would have been tagged as a flat-out socialist and Reagan’s welfare linkage to public works proposal would have been shouted down by the likes of Glenn Beck as part of some New World Order conspiracy.