Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, September 4, 1993                   TAG: 9309060269
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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STUDENTS START 10TH POLL OF ROANOKE VALLEY

Over the next two months, nine students and a research assistant from the college's Center for Community Research will interview 400 randomly selected residents of Roanoke, Roanoke County, Salem and Vinton. This year's poll will focus on local issues.

Harry Wilson, an associate professor of political science, is director of the research center.

The poll is co-sponsored by the Roanoke Times & World-News. The 400 residents are chosen by a statistical process that gives the poll a 5 percent margin of error. That means that, if every adult in the valley were surveyed, there is a 95 percent chance the results would fall within 5 percentage points of those found in the poll.

The pollsters, all seniors, are:

Michelle Black International relations and French major from Atlanta.

Gene Bourne History major from Richmond.

Kathleen Carlson Political science and criminal justice major from Towson, Md.

Jon Criner Political science major from Vinton.

Susan Denny International relations major from Decatur, Ga.

Jody Hedeman Political science major from Annapolis, Md. Michelle Jarbue

Political science major from Annapolis, Md.

James Jordan Economics major from Roanoke.

Winona Lee Sociology major from Wytheville.

Karen McClellan Research assistant for Roanoke's Center for Community Research.