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Page 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, July 19,1983 Mondale leads others in congressional backing United Press International WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Walter Mondale leads all Democratic presidential candidates in the race for en dorsements from members of Congress, but he remains far short of a majority, a United Press International survey shows. One year before the Demo cratic National Convention, most Capitol Hill politicians are still uncommitted to any Demo cratic presidential candidate. But with the support or en dorsement of 61 of the 321.con gressional Democrats, Mondale is doing better than all his five rivals combined, the survey re vealed. The challenge will be for him to hold the support. The endorsements have spe cial importance because under new party rules House and Sen ate Democrats will choose 188 of their number as delegates to the party’s national convention — all free to vote their conscience. That will be one of the largest blocs of delegates to be chosen to attend the convention. More important, these will be no ordinary delegates. As Richard Moe, the man in charge of Mondale’s year-old, extensive congressional canvassing effort, put it, “These members will have enormous influence and pre stige at the convention, beyond their mere votes. All have influ ence and standing in their dis tricts and with their state delega tions.” House members, concerned about their own re-elections in 1984, could turn fickle if they think another candidate has lon ger coattails to ride. Backers of Sen. John Glenn of Ohio are counting on him to be perceived at the convention as having a better chance than Mondale to beat President Reagan. In addition to the 60 mem bers publicly supporting Mon dale, it is clear that another five PRESENT THIS COUPON BEFORE ORDERING AND RECEIVE 60C OFF EVERY TACO<=^/^ QUANTITIES UNLIMITED NOT GOOD WITH ANY OTHER OFFER. UAJVL-IIPJVL VOID AFTER AUG. 15, 1983. THCOdfaBEIili GOOD ONLY AT ARCHIE’S TACO BELLS or more members privately sup port him. Some allies of Mon dale place his total support as high as 70 or 80. By contrast, Glenn has only 19 members either pledged or strongly leaning to him. One source close to the Glenn cam paign says that another three dozen members lean to Glenn and some of those will endorse him before the year is out. Other candidates seeking congressional support are Cali fornia Sen. Alan Cranston with 13 supporters and Florida Gov. Reubin Askew with 11 suppor ters. Both are concentrating on Iowa and New Hampshire. Col orado Sen. Gary Hart has five endorsements and Sen. Ernest Hollings’ three endorsements are from his home state of South Carolina. Mondale, leaning on Cran ston in his home turf, has taken the endorsements of 10 of Cali fornia’s 28 House Democrats. 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McKeachie, former president of the American Association for Higher Education, said that during the time of opposition to student evaluations he was an “evangelist” for the cause of stu dent input into faculty evalua tions, but he warned that univer sities should not go overboard in using that tool. “I think there is a potential for damage in using student evalua tions,” McKeachie said. Such evaluations, if used un wisely, can cause faculty to be ankious about their perform ance, servile in their attitude, and disinclined to take risks, McKeachie said. Panel member James E. Slice, director of the University of Texas Center for Teaching Effectiveness, said one pitfall of student evaluations is the lack of a “back-up system” at some uni versities. It does no good to tell an in structor that his students deem him ineffective without having a system to which he can turn to address his problem, Slice said. He added, however, that the student evaluation is one of the best tools for evaluating the per formance of an instructor. “Student evaluations give the instructor the opportunity to tap into student feedback that’s like ly to be frank,” Slice said. Slice said professors can’t ex pect students to walk up to them and tell them what they are doing wrong. “It just doesn’t happen,” he said. He also said that students probably have the best know ledge as to whether an instructor is effective. “The students were there,” he said. “They know what you (the instructor) meant to them. They know if you motivated them.” The other panel members seemed to agree with Slice’s assessment of student evalua tions. In his opening presentation, Johnson quoted an article by panel member Manuel M. Davenport, former head of the Texas A&M Department of Phi losophy and Humanities. Davenport wrote: “It must be acknowledged that no one is bet ter qualified to judge a teacher’s ability to interest his students in a particular subject matter than the students themselves. Thus, students must participate in the evaluation of good teaching.” Panel members also fielded questions from the audience of about 200. One man asked the panel whether the whole discussion wasn’t “much ado about no thing.” He said that student eva luations are not used substan tially at Texas A&M in questions of promotion and that such questions are decided arbitrarily by administrators. Eble, in reply, said, “If I hear you right, you’re somewhat backward in your practices here.” He said that while practices such as the questioner spoke of were common 20 years ago, he found that more and more uni- by Pan Battali Once an Agg versities were using s a saying tha documented approachesBpfter genera culty promotion. He ars Aggies ha however, that there is jrt their alma nowledged problem of Jin fiscal year too much emphasis i ceived more tl search as opposed to itiH gifts, rank ability, but that acknowi; |blii institutio problem is the first stepisBd through mg that problem. Jim Jeeter, a Another audience jttor of the A asked if student evaluaiKtudcnts, attrib inequitable in that ipport to the 1 teachers — ones who j> ‘reople who grades for poor perfor ell better abc; are given better evaluattHthis Univer the students. Bdo with the Slice dismissed that tfBob Rutledg as a myth. Students knoJthe Texas j they are getting out ofactlopment Fou said, adding that the mi®on the U manding teachers somer:|it they rece the highest evaluations.'st in formal < students are pretty astutt*|onal experi this kind of thing,” hesa®eople give Eble agreed that highKe they beli do not correspond "ill 1 ®” he said evaluat ions. 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