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ANNE CRAVEN
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ANNAMAE WINSHIP
Acting Business Manager
ELIZABETH HAUGEN
Managing Editor
PATSY MALiOjNrJi
Advertising Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
News Editor
LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND
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Jane Richardson, Phyllis Perkins, Viriginia
Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris
Yates, City Desk Editors
Bjorg Hansen, Executive Secretary
Betty French Robertson, Women’s Editor
Flora Furrow, Assistant Managing Editor
Winifred Romtvedt, Assistant News Editor
Darrell Boone, Photographer
Betty Bennett, Music Editor
Phyllis Aitfacher, World News Editor
Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor
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Wally Adams, Sports Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Norris Yates, Edith Newton
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and
final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon,
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Attention*, fyp^esixdaAAmen...
This is an open letter to all upperclassmen, be you Greek or
Independent, who are meddling in frosh politics:
Thursday night a beginning was made towards a freshman
campaign free from outside control. It was agreed by both
the Greek bloc and the ISA that the freshmen should meet
by themselves and nominate candidates whom they desired, and
not necessarily those picked out by the “older ’ members of
thir organizations.
The freshmen have been given the opportunity to start their
politics off on the right foot. They have been offered the
chance to select their own candidates and run their own cam
paigns—Officially, that is. If such an ideal is to become an
actuality you upperclassmen must climb back into your books
and extract your already soiled fingers from the freshman
political pie.
You may cry out that these poor, unguided freshmen have
no experience in the line of politics and need your leadership
to bring them through elections unscathed. Phooey! They went
to high school, didn’t they? Most high schools have student
bodies and the officers that go with such organizations. They
know how to nominate someone for an office, and they are
quite capable of deciding for themselves which candidate is
the best. Perhaps they are not hep to the latest methods of
inveigling or forcing other students to vote their way, but
that isn't exactly a point against them.
How about giving the freshmen a chance, upperclassmen?
Let them run their own nomination assemblies and elections.
Maybe we’ll see the cleanest election this campus has ever had.
It’s worth a try, anyway.
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Qaal: One -Ambulance
Probably the most ambitious organization on this campus
and one which is continually amazing students and onlookers
is the campus war board. Although the group started out last
year as merely another campus activity, since then it has rapidly
developed into an organization notable for achieving the ex
tremely high goals which it sets itself and of invariably having
behind it the whole-hearted cooperation of a campus under
going the deadening influence of wartime.
Now the latest drive which the board has opened is the
“dime dinner” plan w hich was initiated last year. However, a
new note has been struck this term with an entirely different
purpose invigorating it. Beginning next Monday, instead of
giving the students an opportunity to purchase the usual 10
cent stamp at dinner, plans have also been made to sell 25 cent
stamps so as to encourage students to start in on individual
stamp books. This is an endeavor on the part of the war board
to turn the drives into more personal and individual efforts.
Of course, the customary "dime dinner” will remain in effect
and representatives will sell 10 cent stamps for those who
wish to continue the pre\ ions method.
The goal for the entire year’s stamp sales has been set bv the
war board as the purchase of a field ambulance bearing the
name of the University of Oregon. However, this will only be
done if the sales reach $2,000. ball term’s stamp drive netted
a sum total of $573. W ith the inauguration of the 25 cent stamp
the war board h».a definite hopes of encouraging students to
purchase stamps of a higher bracket. Winter and spring term
stamp driv es will have to exceed the fall term amount if the goal
is to be reached, and students are urged to accomplish even
more this term than was done during the fall.
The sale ol these stamps affect not only the war effort but
contribute their part to keeping inflation at a minimum. The
purchase of one 25 cent stamp a week from one million college
students would buy five l’-4/s a week which is enough in itself
to make each student on the campus look with a little more
respect to that weekly war stamp.
The moment calls for an immediate response by all to the
IF A JiUJJlJY
MEET A BUDDY
By JEANNE WILTSHIRE
Today's women are right in the
thick of things from street fighting
in Europe to our own uniformed
service women in this country. And
we’re proud to say Oregon’s wom
en are no exception.
For example, Marine First Lieut.
Carolyn Ransom, Gamma Phi, has
been assigned overseas duty as
post exchange officer for the first
contingent of women marines to
reach Hawaii.
Betty Jones, former student, is
now a private in the marine corps
women's reserve on duty in the
assembly and repair section at the
marine corps air station, Cheiry
Point, North Carolina. She was
transferred to that post after com
pleting basic training at Camp Le
Jeune, North Carolina.
Vera Evelyn Fair has been
picked for enlistment to follow two
other UO graduates who are play
ing major parts in the famed wom
en marines’ band; Charlotte Plum
mer is director of the band, and
Shirley Baldwin is a member of
the clarinet section. Private Fair
enlisted in December, 1944, and is
LILYANN VEATCH
Has been commissioned a second
lieutenant in the marines.
expected at Camp Le Jeune early
in 1945 for her basic training.
While at the University she was a
member of the junior symphony
and municipal band.
Elise Martin, former student
here, was recently promoted from
the rank of corporal to sergeant at
the marine corps air station, El
Centro, California. She is a clerk
in the supply section there. Ser
geant Martin entered the marine
corps in April, 1943, and received
her basic training at Hunter col
lege, New York. Later she attended
storekeepers’ school at Blooming
ton, Indiana, in preparation for her
present work.
Jane Garcelon, Alpha Delta Pi,
has been promoted from private
first class to corporal in the ma
rine corps women’s reserve. She
is a driver and mechanic in the
motor transport division of the
marine corps air station at El
Centro. Corporal Garcelon was
graduated from the University
in ’41.
Second Lieut. Janice L. Findtnei,
class of '41, is at the marine quar
termaster school, Camp Le Jeune,
following her graduation from re
serve officers school. Lieut. Findt
ner is a member of Alpha Delta Pi
and Pi Lambda Theta.
Lilyann Veatch, Alpha Phi, has
been commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the marines at Camp
Le Jeune, where she has just fin
ished her eight weeks of basic
officer training. Second ' Lieut.
Veatch attended the U. of O. from
1936 to 1940 and majored in paint
ing. Before going to officers school,
she was a corporal in the photo
section of the Quantico, Virginia,
marine base.
And now to prove that all Ore
gon women are not marines: Pri
vate Marial Patterson, U. of O.
graduate, is taking basic training
at the third WAC training center,
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. She will
be an occupational therapist in an
army hospital. She studied sculp
ture here.
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Air Alert
By SHUBERT FENDRICK
Don Ameche is back with Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc
Carthy on the Chase and Sanborn show. The program is always
good for plenty of laughs and the stars are well supported by
Joan Merrill and Ray Noble’s orchestra. Don’t miss this NBC
show next Sunday at 5. -
“Naughty Marietta,” one of Vic
tor Herbert’s best loved operettas,
will recreate the beauty and ro
mance of old French New Orleans
when it is broadcast over the Chi
cago Theater of the Air tonight
from 8 to 9 over Mutual. With
Marion Claire in the title role, sup
ported by Angelo Raffaelli, it
looks like a good program to hear,
promising much of the gaiety and
color of a Mardi Gras pageant.
One of the top educational pro
grams on the air today, The Hu
man Adventure, will present a
dramatization entitled “Settlement
Lady” depicting the work of the
first director of the University of
Chicago Settlement house in Chi
cago's notorious back-of-the-yards
district.
If you're interested in name
bands, you'll like The Victory
Parade of Spotlight Bands which is
broadcast Monday through Satur
day at 6:30 over the Blue network.
BACK
AGAIN!
Don Anioche has
returned to NBC
and liis old Sun
d a y sidekicks,
D d g a r Herzen
and Charlie Mc
Carthy,
DON AMECIIE
Here is the lineup for next week:
Monday, Jan. 15— Louis Prima.
Tuesday, Jan. 16 Frankie Mas
ters.
Wednesday, Jan. 17 — Charlie
Barnet.
Thursday, Jan. IS- To be selec
ted.
Friday, Jan. 19 Charlie Spivak.
Saturday, Jan. 20- Sunny Dun
ham.
purpose of the stamp drive. If the goal is to h
student must exert himself towards 100 per c,
the purpose in mind of that field ambulance h
of the University, and. what will be more
long run. of the contribution of the sales ti -
inflation.
reached every
it results, with j
ring the name!
>rtant in the
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NewAAsvo&dca&t
“Casualties light’’ the broadcast
said.
You sigh
“Thank God.”
Before you relax
Before you withdraw to your own
little world
remember:
Some few did die,
and then, you must multiply by
relatives, friends, sweethearts
before you can really know
bow many dreams were hushed
tiow many lives were crushed
in a foreign land
Cor you.
“Were the casulaties light?”
you might question then.
The echo of the broadcast comes,
hollow and void of meaning.
The sailor with the big grin
and with all the hashmarks ofPhis
sleeve
had a wife and little girl
in the states.
They lost him
when a torpedo found its mark . . ,
But most of the crew were saved.
The kid who last fall crashed
through the line
on the football turf
lost some yardage on a beach
in the Philippines . . .
But his buddies finally took the
island,
and they sent his things home tc
his folks. ^
“Casualties light” the broadcast
echoes,
without measuring
broken hearts.
By Dorothy Fowler.
There are eight generals among
the alumni of Ohio State.
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