From: puccio@media.mit.edu (Jim Puccio)
Subject: Dan Quayle's GPA and Other Tids on His College Daze
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 03:58:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.143746.27233@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> 
  damiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dale J Miller) writes:

> In article <77760@ut-emx.uucp> dbinford@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Binford)
>   writes:

>> I'm interested in his undergraduate GPA, graduate school, graduate GPA--
>> basically anything in his college career.  If you don't know the numbers,
>> please direct me to a source.

> I second the request that it be posted for public enjoyment.

Glad to be of service.  This, like much useful info, is from the book "What A
Waste It Is To Lose One's Mind: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Dan Quayle,"
$6.95 list, available at *better* bookstores everywhere, or mailorder from
The Quayle Quarterly, POB 8593, Brewster Station, Bridgeport CT 06605, and a
little from the August 1992 issue of Esquire Magazine (the one, appropriately
enough, with Candice Bergen on the cover as "Woman of the Year") ...

1969, Graduated from DePauw University, B.S. (how appropriate) in Political
Science.  GPA = 2.16.  Yow!  (Had that been MIT, he'd have had a 2.7.)  Not one
"A" in his entire college career.

  "Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of
  that sort in college more, but I didn't."
      -- J. Danforth Quayle

A political science professor remembered him on 19-AUG-88 as follows:

  "He was as vapid a student as I can ever recall ... Nothing came out of his
  mouth that was worth remembering."

So, how'd the Boy Wonder get into *law school*, of all things?  He was admitted

  "through an experimental Indiana University program intended to offer 'equal
  opportunity' to minorities, the economically disadvantaged and other students
  of different viewpoints and backgrounds."
      -- J. Danforth Quayle

Affirmative action, that is.  ("No!"  You scream.  "Can't be!")

Hm.  That's interesting.  As the scion of the family that brought *every* child
*I* knew in the 60s a set of Lincoln Logs, he was most undoubtedly *not*
*economically* disadvantaged.  I s'pose it must have been the "different 
viewpoint" engendered by growing up as the son of a Bircher.  (Dad is an
interesting character, but more on him some other time ...)

1974, Graduated from Indiana School of Law, J.D.  GPA = 2.74.  (So at MIT, he'd
have worked his way all the way up to a 3.4.  NTG, Dan-O.)

In an interview with David Broder and Bob Woodward, Quayle said that talking 
about his grades was "irrelevant and rather demeaning."

  "I was a less than serious student in college.  If I had it to do over again,
  I would be far more serious.  I did play a lot of golf.  But I don't think
  that's any reflection on my ability to lead this nation."
      -- J. Danforth Quayle

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| "It was a great time.  Dan drank booze and chased broads like his old man. |
|     -- James Quayle (dad), on Dan's college years                          |
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                           Huh.  But *Mar* says ...

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| "Anybody who knows Dan Quayle knows he would rather play golf than have    |
| sex any day."                                                              |
|     -- Marilyn Quayle, who met Dan in college                              |
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