Photo by David Corey
Show and tell time
Marci Melvin, Brad Miller and Susan Ander
son (left to right) were three interested guests
at the Environmental Study Center s open
house Thursday in Room 104 of Condon Hall
Jan Marshall (at far right), the center's dir
ector, said that the open house motivated a lot
of student, faculty and community interest
'Some people from the university library came
over, even Greenpeace showed up There
were a lot more people here than normally.”
Poll maintains economic policy
hurting Pres. Reagan’s image
NEW YORK (AP) - Increas
ing misgivings about the na
tion's economic future may be
hurting Pres Reagan's image,
according to the latest As
sociated Press-NBC News poll
The poll says that while
Reagan maintains the approval
rating for his overall perfor
mance in office, Americans
believe he is not doing as good a
|ob in handling the economy
The poll, a scientific random
sampling of 1,598 adults by
telephone last Sunday and
Monday, also said there is
growing pessimism about the
economy over the next year
Fifty-one percent of the re
spondents said Reagan is doing
a good or excellent job as pres
ident, but only 39 percent —
the lowest economic approval
rating during his presidency and
down from 45 percent a month
ago — said he is doing a good or
excellent job in handling the
economy
The poll also said there has
been a sharp drop in optimism
about the economy Twenty
three percent said the economy
will get better during the next
year, while 41 percent said it will
get worse, 33 percent said it will
stay the same and 3 percent
were not sure
In comparison, five previous
AP-NBC News polls this year
had an average of 38 percent
saying the economy will get
better and only 22 percent say
ing it will get worse over the next
year
However, the latest AP-NBC
News poll said there had been
little change from previous
months in respondents' opin
ions about the future of their
personal family finances: 20
percent said they will be better
off during the next year, 26
percent said they will be worse
off, 52 percent said they will be
about the same and 2 percent
were unsure.
But there was continued slip
page in respondents' opinions
about whether Reagan really
cares about people like them
Forty-seven percent agreed
with the statement: "Ronald
Recession slides deeper
WASHINGTON (AP) - An
"especially steep plunge" in a
key government index foretells
a national economy already in a
mild recession sinking even
deeper in the next few months, a
top Commerce Department of
ficial said Thursday
"The only real question is
how far it is going to drop," said
Assistant Secretary Robert
Dederick
But Dederick and other an
alysts inside and outside the
government say they don't fore
see a downturn as sharp as last
year’s recession
The Commerce Department
said Thursday that the govern
ment's Index of Leading Indica
tors fell 2.7 percent in Sep
tember, the biggest drop since
April 1980 Since April 1981, the
index has fallen 5.5 percent
Dederick said the new decline
is "an especially steep plunge"
in the index, which is designed
to forecast future trends of the
economy.
"The report strongly suggests
that industrial production will be
sliding into the autumn and that
real gross national product will
be down for the third successive
quarter Any upturn is unlikely
before early 1982
"The iffy question," he said,
“is whether it is going to turn
around in the first quarter or the
second" of next year
The Labor Department
reported Thursday that over-all
business productivity fell at an
annual rate of 1.9 percent in the
third quarter, the biggest de
cline since the first quarter of
1978
Reagan has shown he really
cares about me,"
In September’s poll, 52 per
cent agreed with that statement.
In July, 56 percent agreed
Respondents who said their
family finances and the overall
economy would improve in the
next year were more likely to say
Reagan cares about them
As with all sample surveys,
the results of AP-NBC News
polls can vary from the opinion
of all Americans because of
chance variations in the sample
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