rmy calls Vest wood RC men
[The call to service came ev-nearer yesterday for SC |Cs when half of the UCLA ny reservists were called to iive duty. Bruin men stu-its—232 of them—were or-:ed to active duty Mar. 1 at rt MacArthur. ylany well-known Bruins 1 be taken in this call, png them are Jimmy Ventr, ex-pive managing editor of the Dai-pruin; Ray Pierson, fullback on football team, and Bill O’Brien, Iter on the basketball team.
IJCLA reserves’ call followed kse on the same step taken at Mary’s college Monday when ■dents there were notified to port Mar. 15 for active duty the Presidio of Monterey, Cal.
both instances at St. Mary’s UCLA reservists have been ask-vo report to the nearest recep-center. According to the bul-from the American Council lucation received by Dr. Al-S. Raubenheimer, ERCs once ie reception center will be giv-Ln opportunity to qualify, with-Istablished quotas, for aviation It training.
'he same bulletin says also: army specialized program of course be open, within bblished quotas, to those who qualify after the completion the period of basic training.”
tea honors eign Trojans
Irid Friendship club members (onvene for the first time this fcter at an informal “get-to-r” tea this afternoon from 2 p.m. at the YWCA house.
[ll foreign students on campus b« especially welcome, and tme interested in the group Invited to attend.” Yolanda lari, president, announced yes-
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pored guests will be Miss Lois It. Miss Elizabeth Ely, and Dr. [rine Baers. Refreshments will rved.
Fawell mourns lost Chicago Kharkov
“I hated to see the old ship go down but that’s what she was built for and she couldn’t have been expended for a better cause.”
That was the reaction of Capt. Reed Fawell, commanding officer of the 10,000-ton cruiser Chicago from 1934-36, when informed of the ship’s sinking by Japanese aircraft Jan. 30 in the Solomon islands area.
The heavy cruiser was sunk
by aerial torpedoes while engaged in attempting to block enemy efforts to evacuate troops from the island and in aiding American movements to reinforce the island.
During the time Fawell was in command, the Chicago was engaged in operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sailing with the Chicago in this contingent of cruisers were the Astoria, Houston, and the Northhampton, all of which
have been lost in the present conflict.
At the time Captain Fawell was in command the Chicago was the flagship of 14 heavy cruisers in the U.S. fleet. The ship was 600 feet long, had a speed of 33 knots, and carried 9 eight-inch guns mounted in three gun turrets. In addition she -carried four aircraft. Built at the Mare Island navy yard, the Chicago was launched Apr. 10, 1930.
After graduating from the
Naval Academy in 1905, Captain Fawell was sent to the Asiatic theater upon orders from Theodore Roosevelt. During the first world war, Captain Fawell acted as assistant director of naval communications in the navy department and later was executive officer of a naval transport.
Prior to assuming his duties as commandant of NROTC at SC, he was professor of naval science and tactics at the Georgia School of Teachers.
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Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 17, 1943
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Interfraternity council changes pledge rules
Requirements for pledges of the 20 social fraternities were changed at a meeting of the interfraternity council Friday to read, “All pledges shall be eligible for initiation providing that they are enrolled in the university; this motion to be retroactive as of the fall semester 1942-43.”
Grade requirements and length of pledgeship were lett to the individual fraternities.
“This fc ai> emergency measure designed to take care of the men who are being called into active duty and to aid the fraternity manpower problem in so far as is practical,” explained Dr. Francis M. Bacon, counS'vAor of men. As in the past, all pledges must be registered by the president of the fraternity in the office of the counsellor of men from the date of pledging as well as from the date of their initiation.
New pledges to have pictures in El Rodeo
Today is the absolute deadline for all El Rodeo picture appointments, postponed in order to give the second semester pledges of sororities and fraternities an opportunity to have their pictures in the annual for the first time in its history.
“Ample time has been allowed for all students to make appointments, the photographers having been open since September expressly for this purpose,” exclaimed Johnny Lowe, editor.
Lowe stated that this ruling applies to everyone, **even the editor of the El Rodeo.”
Big basketball rally to honor SC cagers
With only a few final arrangements and some minor details standing in the way, student body prexy Bob McKay and rally chairman Bruce Graham were going full speed ahead yesterday afternoon with plans for one of the biggest rallies to be staged at SC.
One thing was definite. This yell fest isn’t headlining any big name bands “to be announced sometime tomorrow.” The main point McKay
wanted to get over was that ,the rally committee, for once, was putting on an extravaganza with no idea of getting some entertainment to keep us airplane throwers happy,
•U.P. reports
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\easles epidemic vades campus
»me people think that the measles is only a kids’ disease, [hose Trojans who have had it lately found good rea-o change their minds.
rne little red spots caused five men and two women stu-js to miss their classes for several days. And when they I back they weren't aping the
Navy hits slackers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—OLE)— The House Naval Affairs committee today approved a virtual “work or fight” order for the navy’s civilian employees to halt absenteeism while Secretary Frank Knox denounced workers who stay off the job as “men who haven’t let the war get under their skins.”
Jap positions hit
GEN, MACARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, Feb. 17.—(U.P)—Allied medium bombers, continuing heavy assaults on Japanese positions in the southwestern Pacific, scored “excellent results” yesterday in raids against
the twin enemy bases of Lae and Salamaua on the north coast of New Guinea, the allied command announced today.
Gandhi weakens
POONA, India, Feb. 16.—(U.E)— Mohandas K. Gandhi, weazened 73-year-old high priest of the Indian nationalist movement, weakened today as he entered the seventh day of his three-weeks fast in protest against his continued internment.
FDR lauds Soviets
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—(U.E)— President Roosevelt said today that soviet successes at Kharkov and Rostov will make it difficult for Germany to launch a successful counter-attack in the spring.
but rather this was a rally to honor the Trojan basketball team and got all set for the crucial Stanford game Friday night.
“It’s going to be short, sweet, and mellow,” said McKay, “starting and ending in plenty of time to eat lunch. You can do a lot in 20 minutes, and we’re going to cram those 1200 seconds so full that ihere won’t be any time to get hungry.
“This rally isn’t the kind where there’s any place for any big-time entertainment, although you can never tell what’s going to happen,” he added. “We’ve got something to do, we’ve got plenty to do it with, and lots of laughs to top it off. There isn’t anybody at SC who’ll miss this one, and it’s going to start with a bang just as soon as the kids get seated—if they can get seated.”
LONDON, Wednesday, Fete. 17—(U.P.)—Kharkov, Russia’s fourth city and anchor of the German southern line, fell to a triumphant Russian army Tuesday and to the southeast, on the Sea of Azov coast, the Red army swept within 17 miles of Taganrog, making a gain of 18 miles west of Rostov.
Kharkov, 300 miles west of Stalingrad, was won in a blazing bat- • tie which carried the Red army guards into the streets of the city to rout the flower of the German army, the Nazi SS combat troops.
A jubilantly dramatized special communique which announced the freeing of Kharkov, a victory matched only by the saving of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, was followed early today by the Tuesday midnight comftnunique, announcing the capture of two district centers and five big inhabited localities — one of them Sinyavka, 17 miles east-northeast of Taganrog, which the Germans had held after their first loss of Rostov in December, 1941.
In their sweep west of Rostov, the Russians took Chaltyr, 12 miles westward on the railroad to Tag-anr6g; Krim, 12 miles north of Chaltyr, and the inhabited locality of Nedvikovka.
Thirty miles northwest of Rostov, Soviet troops took Bolshe-krepinskaya as they advanced , westward on a front of more than 25 miles north of the sea.
The inhabited localities of Gen* eraliski-most and Sultan-suly also fell to the Rostov army. *
On the biggest day of the 89-day Russian offensive,<■ the -thread-to the entire German- army in the Donets basin had been increased.
Jubilant radio Moscow, broadcasting the news of Kharkov’s fall to Germany, made one of its rare references to possible United States-British second-front action:
“The days are not far when the Americans and the British will land and stay on European
soil.”
» stars by wearing dark glasses, is doctor’s orders, ne doctors thought that .these might have been the German les, but others claimed that |al cases were too severe for
Margaret McMorrow of the service released the names ve girls who have recovered the disease. They are Dorothy hue, Maxine Freedman, Mary Grace McNeil, and Marie , Miss McMorrow explained many cases went unreported e some students had the dis-uring registration, unidentified men students ere afflicted with the measles, lyness overtook them and id not give their names.
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order to provide for a stu-body assembly on Monday, 22, the following sched-jrill govern class meetings the morning:
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Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid, President
Campus politicos huddle despite war
Dr. Hunt to speak at I. R. club Friday
“A Harvard professor once said, ‘The moral crisis now facing the world is that of a worse or better good than man has ever known,’ and that phrase ‘a better good’ is significant of the young people of the day who are going to have to pull the world out of the present situation/* This was
remarked by Dr. Rockwell Dennis
by Sherwin Gerver
“Hi, Bud, have a cigar and remember which box to put the X in,” is a sure’ harbinger of spring on the SC campus than the advent of the first robin in other parts of the country.
For the edification of new students, student body elections at Troy are held the seventh week of the spring semester, Mar. 26 this year.
Elections may be five weeks off, but already • politicians have been seen huddling over flickering candles and checkered tablecloths in dark, secluded corners.
“War or no war, SC this semester is going to have regular elections according to the ASSC constitution,” stated Bob McKay, student body president.
Traditionally the “m a-chine,” a rather vague group of individuals who have been variously described as “the guys drinking cokes at the corner table in the Union all
day,” “the bunch that keeps the juke box busy at the Wagon Wheel,” or “those Wagon Wheel-,” sponsor their candidate for student body president who is opposed by
PHIL LEVINE . . . he'll see that everything is on the up and up.
a candidate of the “people,” a term including ever/ student apart from the “machine.”
Just who is the machine candidate and who is the peo-
BOB McKAY ... he went through this last year.
pie’s candidate is usually not quite clear. In fact many times in the past all candidates have claimed the support of the people and accused their opponents of being machine-backed while bandying about such weighty questions as the price of coffee in the Union, the softness of chairs in the Student Union lounge, or the selection of tunes played on the Mudd hall chimes.
A quaint characteristic of election rallies is the almost uniform failure of the announced screen, radio, and big-name talent to appear.
Traditionally telegrams of regret are sent to the rally to be read to the multitude booming some candidate or other. For some reason these telegrams have little positive effect on the' celebrity-hungry audience.
“Vote for Zilch; Bob Hope showed up after all,” is an oft-heard cry on the day of elections.
Hunt when he discussed his presentation of the “Ninety-Five Theses for These Times” to be given to the International Relations club tomorrow at noon in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall.
Dean Hunt taught history courses, some on the history and development of the Reformation, in which he became quite familiar with the work and character of Martin Luther and his “Ninety-Five Theses” posted on a church door. Matching the great reformer with theses of his own, Dean Hunt explained that it was not to be an address, but a presentation of ideas to be defended and discussed.
“I am a member of an outside commission for the organization of peace, a western group of an international movement which is broadly representative,” he stated.
“Chairman .Eugene Harley asked me for copies of my ‘Ninety-Five I’heses' to bfe distributed to the members of this organization. At my presentation tomorrow, I will try to furnish those present with copies to study, oo the outside, because it will be impossible to cover all of the points on my list,” Dean Hunt remarked.
Reservations for the luncheon and Dr. Hunt’s speech may be procured at the Graduate School office, Administration 160. All students are invited.