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...leaders of Columbia's other extra-curricular groups backed the protest. The Jester, undergraduate humor magazine, published a front page editorial, but the Emergency Council denied distribution of the issue until a mimeographed sheet had been stapled to its cover...
...Jester Muzzled...
...Jester Editor Resigns
McKnight took offense at a letter published in the Spectator from John Crossett, Columbia '46, editor of the Jester, undergraduate humor magazine. As a result, Crossett resigned his position, but in his last issue before resignation, he published a front-page editorial blast denouncing the Emergency Council for "toadying" to McKnight's whims...
...Emergency Council struck back by barring distribution of all copies of the Jester to which were not stapled a mimeographed letter expounding the Emergency Council's position and deprecating the stand of the humor magazine. This act, along with that of the student government in naming the editors of the Spectator, is generally regarded as being without precedent in the recent history of Ivy League colleges...