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) 'League's President \ Interested in PoliticsLu- Br JO ANN EIDOMTh# paradoxical thin* about th# president of the Campus League ring of Women Voters is that she can't by vote.t « But Freda Gail Baum, just rs-cently-tumed 19, isn’t waiting for (ina! her twenty-firit birthday to take pcn interest in politics,it 2 She is Intent on preparing for the day when she will b« eligible t ( to assume the voting responsibility of citizenship. And this she has concentrated on doing eince her ncct sophomore year when she joined the Campus League. Her efforts AH were culminated this week end m*’ when, as president of the Unlver-cost ,jty chapter, she led the first intercollegiate Conference of the Campus League of Women Voters, attended by delegate' from SMU, 315-tTSCW, and North Texas State *«*• College.a,,d The conference's objective was the to plan an expansion program for and Campus League and to outline her- plans for setting up similar organ-H,u‘ izations at other Texas schools.* to Every student should be inter-'n,s. ested in ami aware of political issues. Freda Gail believes. Col-cate |cCp i* the preparatory field in toon which the student can ready him-hat- §elf to take his part in politics. La* even if this part is no more than ities exercising his franchise.And Freda Gail is making the ill most of campus opportunities to »:30 understand politics. Never a can-•Hg- didate. she. as an Orange Jacket, Isor ha* aided in every campus election since her sophomore year, ntp sitting at the polls and vote-count-chte jng.ues- As political chairman of Delta Mrs. Epsilon »ororit, she found an out-less, let for her enthusiasm for politics.I be Her lone claim to fame, aha 'ter- says, is that she has been reporter lock for more organizations than any-Co- one on the campus.Wii- At any rate, she wrote and reported enough to earn a positionFREDA GAIL BAUMmost pleasant task I've ever had,! Worn out from walking around she says. the campus for hours trying toFar from a hookworm, the Fort find a building (she still hasn’t Worth girl ha* found her name on ' located it), Freda Gail walked the Arts and Sciences honor roll into her dark room, every semester except one since Without turning on the light ahe she was a freshman, when she was hounded for the place where her elected to Alpha Lambda Delta. l*ed had been the last time she freshman scholastic honorary. had seen it.Freda Gail finds her study For week* her knee* boro the hour*—and the hours she ha* .bruises inflicted by the sudden spent for three months knitting conflict with the cement floor, one argyle sock—interrupted by There have hcen no similar rasher duties as an upperelas* ad- unities in Littlefield eince that ri*or at Littlefield Dormitory. 1jOne thing she always tells her __advisee* their first day a» the _ .. .
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 13, 1949
Page 9
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