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'League's President Interested in PoliticsBy JO ANN EIDOMThe paradoxical thine about the president of the Camput League ! of Women Voters is that she can't y vote.'• But Freda Gail Baum, just recently-turned 19, isn’t waiting for . her twenty-first birthday to take „ an interest in politics.2 She is intent on preparing for r the day when she will be eligible to assume the voting responsibility of citizenship. And this she has concentrated on doing since her t sophomore year when she joined the Campus League. Her efforts 1 were culminated this week end* when, as president of the Univer-1 sity chapter, she led the first intercollegiate Conference of the Campus League of Women Voters,* attended by delegate from SMU, •ItSCW, and North Texas StateCollege.I The conference’s objective was e to plan an expansion program for '1 Campus League and to outline* plans for setting up similar organ-i- izations at other Texas schools.0 Every student should be inter-’• rsted in and aware of political issues. Freda Gail believes. Col-lege is the preparatory field in‘ which the student can ready him-- self to take his part in politics, *, even if this part is no more than s exorcising his franchise.And Freda Gail is making the1 most of campus opportunities to ' understand politics. Never a can-* didate, she. as an Orange Jacket, r has aided in every campus election since her sophomore year,» sitting at the polls and vote-count-e ing.As political chairman of Delta . Epsilon sorority, she found an out-. let. for her enthusiasm for politics. Her lone claim to fame, she- says, is that she has been reporter s for more organizations than any-- one on the campus.At any rate, she wrote and reported enough to earn a position ; as night society editor for the { Texan last fall. A junior journal-r i«m student, she is a pledge of I Theta Sigma Fhi, honorary jour-. nation organisation.“Working on the Texan is the
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 13, 1949
Page 9
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