ROJAN VOTERS MARK TS’ TODAY
Polls open at 9 a.m.; Dent. Med students
ominees presented
There is never an officer elected or ap-inted who Is not criticized,” read Leta alentine in an open letter to the mem-rs of the ASSC Friday noon at the nomi-tions assembly. “It is impossible to please the people all the time, but if the officials n please a few, then they are good offi-als.”
Miss Galentine continued to say in her n letter that the Groundhog column in e Trojan insinuated that there was evil i the student government. In contradiction he asked for proof, stating that the senate sras open for every ASSC member to attend. Attacking the Groundhog statements that e student body government was inefficient, he cited instances of student government
in action—the registration of voters, the successful bloodbank campaign. Religion Emphasis week, and the first college unit of the Red Cross on the Pacific coast. “This is not inefficiency,” said Miss Galentine.
Miss Galentine concluded by quoting Friday’s Groundhog editorial, “Petty politicians do the honest things only because they are afraid of ’being smeared’ in the Trojan.” Speaking for herself, Miss Galentine said “I am not afraid of a smear campaign in the Trojan, and it is not right for the only newspaper on the SC campus to take sides. The Trojan should remain impartial on election issues, and give both sides a fair repre-
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ballot separately
Polls will be open today from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. in front of Bovard auditorium so that students who registered for voting during the week of Jan. 17-21 may have the opportunity to cast their ballots, announced elections commissioner Mickey Heeger. Accommodations will be made for dental and medical students at the Dental clinic and General hos-
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
iVoL XXXY
Kirbi ih««! u. 54?i Los Angeles, Monday, January 31, 1944
No. 79
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TED COHRT
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ROCKWELL HINCHLIFF
JOY MILLER
pital at the same time.
JEAN WORKING
>tudent body !andidates ive messages
(Editor’s note: The following statements were turned in to the Trojan as requested of each ASSC office candidate. The^ are printed exactly as originally submitted.)
>R PRESIDENT:
TED COHRT—“As a candidate for ASSC president, I urge every student to exercise his right to vote to do his part in making this an st election.”
ROCKWELL HINCHLIFF—“In ier to make clear to those who ly misunderstand my motives In opting the nomination for stu-lent body president, I wish to ex-the reasons that made me cide to re-enter the race.
For years the student body as whole has lacked definite inter-in student affairs, and has been rntent to assume a very minor in university activities. At the Jme announcement of my inten-to run appeared in the paper, |t was my belief that students need-and wanted a new and stimu-iting spirit to carry on the serious they have assumed.
It daily became more evident, jwever, that the desire for co-itive spirit was fading, the pre-(Continued on Page Eight)
MARGARET COWIN
WtfK-
HELEN JANET SIMS
An editorial
rite-in method Jtold by Heeger
Those voters desiring to write-in candidates during the elections today should follow the procedure outlined by elections commissioner Mickey Heeger, as follows: “The mm* may be written in with either pencil or ink in the blank space provided on the ballot,” stated Heeger. “It must be ■pelled correctly and then stamped with the official ‘X* rubber •tamp.”
by the editor
Recently student leaders who feel they have been criticized unduly have attacked the integrity of the Trojan. These leaders have attempted to discredit the Trojan as a representative publication in the eyes of the student body. These leaders claim that the Trojan represents a prejudiced minority.
The responsibility of the paper should be directly to the student body as a whole, and not to the student senate. In this way the value of a check and balance system of student government can be preserved and the student paper can remain as a critical force in the university.
These same leaders will argue that the paper is the official publication of the associated students and the senate’s opinion on all matters is that of the whole student body. It is true that most senate members are elected by the student body, but who is to say that the opinions of 17 men and wom£h coincide exactly at all times with the majority of the thousands at SC or any other university? These student leaders were elected nine months ago because at that time they were leaders in activities, seemed representative, and primarily, were liked personally.
But who is to say that they have all continued to be representative? For example, take the office of president of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. How is the representative of over a thousand LAS students qualified to say what these students believe when he has not called a single meeting this year to ascertain their point of view.
Who knows how the unorganized independents, who are in the majority at SC, think about student government?
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SC Groundhog flattens ears in big finale
by the Groundhog
Here today, gone tomorrow. Your poor old Groundhog, trampled on, is heading for his hole never to return again. (The "boys” give a sigh of relief.)
With his fur trampled and his ears flattened, the Groundhog makes its last appearance—today—election day—to witness nearly 1600 registered voters going to the poles and designating their choice for the ASSC colleges, classes, and yell leaders.
•If ail goes well, the much attacked Groundhog, who has attempted to better picture the background for today’s election, will descend into obscurity. In these articles I have picked out historical notes, predicted candidates with nearly 100 per cent accuracy, and explained registration and election procedure.
Even after being battered time and again by those I criticized, the most important function of this columnist has been to interpret and analyze the election.
Some student leaders have belittled the Groundhog for writing under a pseudonym. There have been justifiable reasons for using this title jrather than a byline, the primary reason being that it simplifies gathering news. If political “bigs” knew my identity they would clam-up in my presence. It allows the column to be written without influence or canned material.
The election race is on. Ted Cohrt, Sig Ep, is vieing against Rockwell Hinchliff, non-org, for the seat at the head of the senate table. Cohrt is running and is being backed by the old guard fraternity ticket.
I announced Cohrt’s intention to run last Monday and he filed his petition Wednesday. Hinchliff announced his intention to run in Monday’s Trojan and he wrote a letter to the student body Fri-(Contiiyied on Page Eight)
Bob Patterson, assistant elections commissioner, has released the following procedure for voters
today:
1.	The voter will present his registration slip, and if correct, it will go into a box and the voter will get his ballot.
2.	Next the voter will go into a booth and vote.
3.	When the voter Is finished, he will fold the ballot to the perforated line across the bottom.* The elections commissioner will tear the number from the ballot and put the number into the box the registration slip has already gone' into. The ballot will then be put into the ballot box.
Margaret Ann Hausmann, assistant elections commissioner, stated that a ballot shall be declared void for any of the following reasons:
1.	Indication of choice in any manner other than the official X stamp.
2.	Voting for more than one candidate for the same office.
3.	Placing the X stamp on any portion of the ballot outside of the designated area.
4.	failure to clearly indicate choice.
5.	Any marring or defacing of the ballot.
There will be a Senate meeting Monday night following the tallying of votes in 418 Student Union, announced acting ASSC president Leta Galentine.
An area 100 feet around the polls will be kept cleared today so that no one except elections commissioners and voters may enter. “This is a precaution against last-minute election propaganda,” stated Heeger.
Blue Key
. . . will meet at noon today in 323 Student Union. Bob Stevens, president, asks that all members attend.
Deferment
changes
announced
An important meeting has been called for Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. in 206 Administration building by Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, director of the educational program of the university. The purpose of the meeting is to explain a notice from the war manpower commission stating that existing deferments of groups of students listed below may be terminated Feb. 15. New procedures for deferment after Feb. 15 have been established.
“It is imperative that all students listed in the following categories attend# Wednesday’s meeting,1* said Dr. Raubenheimer.
Group. 1:
Undergraduate students who will graduate on or before July 1, 1944, who are majoring in the following fields: aeronautical engineering, agricultural sciences, automotive engineering, bacteriology, chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering, mineral technology, naval architecture, optometry, petroleum engineering, pharmacy, physics, astronomy, radio engineering, sanitary engineering, agricultural engineering, ceramic engineering, mining and metallurgical engineering, me-terology.
Group 2:
Pre-medical, pre-dental, pre-vet-erinary, pre-osteopathic, and pre-theological students.
Assembly to begin SC war heroes week
Opening War Heroes week, Col. Roy R. Terry, one of the heads of the California-Arizona maneuvers area who has been with the American fighting men in Africa and who has flown over Germany with the U. S. air forces, will speak to the student body at 12:30 p.m. today in Bovard auditorium
at an all-U assembly.
SC debaters
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take tourney
SC won the Pi Kappa Delta iii> vitational debate tournament at UCLA this weekend with a cumulative score of 31 points, George Pepperdine college took second place with 18 digits, and UCLA and Redlands tied for third with 13 each.
In the men’s division John Tice and Bob Meyer took second. Tyler MacDonald won first position in men’s extemporaneous; Maurice Gould came in second. Men’s im-promtu second place went to S. M. Hufstedler of Troy.
Hallie Mae Shearer and Mildred Carman tied for second in women’i debate. Miss Carman won women’s extemporaneous, while Miss Shearer walked off with both women's oratory and interpretative reading.
Colonel Terry, who is now stationed at San Bernardino base depot, was with the U. S. ground forces in England in 1942-43 and saw the air forces of both British and Americans in action. Later he was with the Center Task force in Africa.
Present at the assembly will be Capt. Ruben Welsh, of the marines stationed at SC, representatives of the other branches of the services represented on campus, and acting president of the student body Leta Galentine, according to Carroll Brinkerhoff, chairman of the bond drive.
Special Trojan issued Tuesday
The Trojan will be issaed tomorrow instead of Wednesday in order to bring the results of the ASSC election to the student body.