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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
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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.
Family breakup
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among teens
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riages now end in divorce.
Dr. Robert E. Gould, profes
sor of psychiatry at New York
Medical College, says in Seven
teen magazine that teenagers
who become angry about a di
vorce may turn to self
destructive behavior such as
shoplifting, using drugs, failing
in school, or getting involved in
sexual relationships.
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Student evaluations
continued from page 1
Panel member Wilbert J.
McKeachie agreed.
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
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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. Blted in wha
“That comes about asd» they give.’’
utter nonsense as any Corporation:
statement,” he said. Ipse they li]
Disputes mar OPEC meeting
or
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HELSINKI, Finland —
OPEC oil ministers gathered
Monday to reinforce 4-month-
old agreements on price and
production, but a leading
spokesman said the cartel still
was bedeviled by internal dis
putes.
Armed police guards
escorted the 13 ministers to the
downtown Finlandia Confer
ence Center for their semi
annual meeting.
“Some countries will not
adhere to the London agree
ments,” Indonesian oil minister
Dr. Subroto said Sunday, hint
ing that production quotas set by
the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries last March
had been violated.
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