"I didn't really think of it as that important of a thing," says Rozen, who says his completed form is still somewhere in his room.

Council member Daniel E. Fernandez '03, another student randomly picked to take the census, says he filled out his form but didn't hand it in--the council already knows his views, he says.

"The fact that it went out to council members was a little bit troubling," says Fernandez, who is also a Crimson editor. "I want for it to be a success, but my general intuition is that it won't tell us anything we don't already know."

An already low response rate was aggravated when the council turned its attention to planning for Springfest, forcing Driskell to push back the deadline in order to receive at least half of the forms.

But Council Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01says that getting 250 responses is not necessarily anything to brag about.

"Fifty percent is a good number to shoot for, but that's obviously pretty low for what started out as a small sampling," Darling says. "And a 50 percent response gives you a very self-selected group."

Driskell, who says her sociology teaching fellow assured her the census would be scientific enough for what she aims to do, says she isn't all that concerned.

"We're not trying to reverse randomization," she says, referring to the council's informal dining hall survey last year on student's satisfaction with randomization. Targeting specific administration policies, she says, requires a higher degree of statistical accuracy.