College Freshmen Are More Liberal on Gay Marriage, Abortion
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First-year college students are more socially liberal than their predecessors on issues such as same-sex marriage and public education for undocumented students, according to an annual survey released today.
More than 71 percent of respondents who were freshmen in 2011 indicated same-sex couples should be able to marry, up from 64.9 percent two years earlier, according to the survey by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.