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...Spec's constitution provides in properly legal language that the paper's Managing Board shall appoint its successors toward the end of its term in office. Spec's most recent board had difficulty in agreeing on a new editor-in-chief last spring so it asked Columbia College's Emergency Council, wartime student governing body, to mediate the dispute...
Glad to assist, the Emergency Council picked Edward Gold; the choice was accepted by the Spec staff, which then drew up a slate of Managing Board editors to serve under Gold and presented the list, as a matter of form, to the Council for its approval...
Quite unexpectedly, the Council rejected the proposed Board, insinuating that political intrigue had played a part in the rapid elevation of Byron Dobell, second-in-command-on the new Board. Spec editors, resenting the Council's implication and interference, countered that the elevation was made on grounds of "ability, initiative, service, originality, and sincerity...
...chairman of the Council, Jack Bainton, then asserted that the Spec board had not demonstrated its capability to select its successors. This was on June 8; a four-to-three majority decided the Council's policy...
...Spec Board is now out, because the issue of choosing a new Managing board for Spec was submitted by the Council to the King's Crown Advisory Committee, which runs Columbia's extra-curricular activities, on June 11 and the KCAC took selection of the new board out of the hands of the old board. From now on the KCAC, in which Associate Dean Nicholas McD, McKnight and other faculty members have a dominant voice, would call the tune...