Word: spec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stanley Smith is still editor-in-chief of Spec, but he no longer has the unchecked power he enjoyed during the summer; for Edward Gold and Frederick Klecberg, both members of the last and "legitimate" Managing Board, are back on the staff as associate editor and managing editor, respectively...
...whole history of the situation has been very confused, with the Managing Board sired by the Dean's office-controlled Emergency Council claiming that it has broken up the clique-monopoly of Columbia's extra-curricular activities, and with the ousted Spec editors protesting loss of freedom of the press...
...Spectator's run-in with the U. S. Navy, which has little connection with the preceding issue except that both may be said to involve censorship has to do with a column called "Sea Breeze" for Navy men which has been run in Spec for several months: something like the Lucky Bag which used to run in the SERVICE NEWS...
...Columbia's V-12 and NROTC programs at the beginning of the present term. The naval undergraduates at Columbia found Captain Wellings "an old salt who insists on complete compliance with his orders, and with a minimum of controversy and dissension," according to a member of the Spec staff...
...compromise was reached, says a member of the Spec staff, by which Smith was appointed Navy censor of all "Sea Breeze" material. Wellings achieved his end: Navy material would be censored. Smith remained in command on Spectator...