A weekly opinion poll conducted by the Student Government Association offered an unusual question on its "ballot" during the first week of school. Should first-year students be required to wear beanies?
    The tradition requiring freshmen to wear silly little hats--ostensibly so upperclassmen could "recognize" them--was abandoned in the early 1960s, and there is no organized effort to resurrect it.
    More than a third of students who voted (36 percent) said, "yes," freshmen should wear beanies. Fifty-eight percent voted "no."