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...many, pointless war in Southeast Asia. In university dorms and dining halls around the country, students endlessly discussed their overarching obsession: the draft and how to avoid it. "The stress was ungodly, enormous," says Wheeler. "Viet Nam meant death." It was in this highly charged atmosphere that J. Danforth Quayle, DePauw University class of '69, enlisted in the National Guard...
...their heroes were murdered, the Baby Boomers themselves seem bent on commiting political suicide, and Sen. J. Danforth Quayle, Vice President George Bush's running mate in the run for the White House, is but the latest casualty...
...University makes some resources available to teaching fellows to help them learn how to run sections and grade papers. The Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning holds orientation lectures at the begining of each semester for new teaching fellows, the Core program publishes a "how to" manual for TFs, and there are free videotaping and consulting resources for those graduate students who want other teachers to critique their performance...
Lack of professorial encouragement is not the only reason why graduate students do not use resources like the Danforth Center. "I have seen graduate students, usually for financial reasons, who get so bogged down with teaching that they don't do a very good job at teaching," says Amy Boesky '81, a graduate student in English...
...hope the President will rethink his position and come down on the side of the American people." But the White House was counting on Congress to resubmit a bill without the plant-closing measure, and there was no sign of a quick resolution to the conflict. Said Senator John Danforth, a Missouri Republican: "I believe that this bill is dead...