First woman army officer graduates
She’s close to Ph.D., wants to
“change system from inside’’
By MARY FORAN
Of the Emerald
The University Army ROTC will commission its first
woman officer, Ann Thrasher, Sunday.
“She’s a real competitor,” says Lt. Col. James Helbing,
military science professor. "She ranks very highly in the group.
It’s nice to have the first woman graduate also be dose to a
Ph.D.” ^ .
Thrasher, an education administration major, does dou
ble duty as the assistant director of the Learning Resources
Center (LRC). „ . _ _
“There's nothing Ann can”t do and do well, says LRC
Director Nancy Ames. She describes Thrasher as an "excep
tional organizer and assistant."
Thrasher labels herself a "Conservative — a school
teacher at every level,” who wants to work for change from
“inside the system.”
A college student in the mid-60s, Thrasher developed this
stance in response to her personal experience with MIAs in
Vietnam. She feels the ‘60’s protests “harmed the will” of the
soldiers in Vietnam.
As a cadet, Thrasher participated in basic training, an
obstacle roughly one-third of the cadets don’t overcome. De
scribing herself as the “oldest and fattest in her company,
Thrasher “turtled” her way past exhausted “rabbits" in training
while gaining experience and credentials in the education
field.
“She goes beyond the call of duty,” Ames observes.
“She’s an original—you don’t have to agree with her to admire
her.”
Thrasher thinks there is more age discrimination than sex
discrimination in the service, even though women have only
been involved in ROTC since 1973.
“ROTC is an individual preference,” Thrasher says. “For
me, it’s appropriate. I don't know if it’s appropriate for others,
but I don’t believe in closing doors .. .if I’d closed doors I
probably wouldn’t have gone to college.”
Four men will also be commissioned at the same time as
Thrasher, James Brown, Rodney Hudson, Lawrence Scott
and Wesley Wyoff.
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Women are so new that we tend to get the acclaim, Thrasher says."But I'd hate for the others to be left out.
Movie critic says he delivered
ad trade-off to Cinema 7 owner
A film reviewer from a Eugene
weekly newspaper recently
warned a local theater owner that
unless the theater purchased ad
vertising space, the paper would
reduce its coverage of films
shown at the theater.
Pierre Dunn, a Willamette Val
ley Observer reviewer for the last
year, made the comments to
Steve Bove, who operates
Cinema 7, at a preview screening
of Celine and Julie Go Boating.
Contacted later, Dunn said his
warning reflected his interpreta
tion of comments made to him by
Observer editor Ken Doctor.
Asked if the threat constituted a
shakedown, Dunn responded, “I
wouldn’t use that word, but, yes, I
suppose it could be seen that
way.”
Doctor denied the story, claim
r
ing Dunn had “misinterpreted” a
conversation between the two.
When asked how Dunn, an ex
perienced reviewer for the paper
and professional research analyst
could make such an error, Doctor
offered no explanation.
He did offer another version of
how advertising space is linked to
film coverage: “The amount of
space we have for reviews of ail
kinds is determined by how much
advertising we sell. In the past,
we’ve given Cinema 7 films a dis
proportionate amount of space,
often at the expense of coverage
of big-name American films. Ide
ally, we would review everything
of inportance, but since space is
limited, we’ll be cutting back on
coverage of the films at Cinema 7.
The only way we could run more
reviews would be if Cinema 7 —
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Informed of Doctor’s denial,
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ments. Specifically, his earlier
conversation with Doctor made it
dear there was a “more direct
ink” between the advertising
space paid for and the coverage it
received than Doctor’s explana
tion implied. Dunn also mentioned
he had told Doctor of the
Emerald’s interest in the story be
fore the paper succeeded in con
tacting Doctor.
Steve Bove, Cinema 7
manager/owner, was surprised by
the exchange, saying “other
theaters get reviews without buy
ing ads, so why do they pick on
us? If our films appeal more to
Observer readers than other peo
ple, they should be anxious to do
more reviews as a service to their
readers. Anyway, I don’t see how
our decision not to buy ads sud
denly makes our films less news
worthy.”
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