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...YORK, Aug. 28-Weeks of dispute between the managing board of the Spectator, Columbia undergraduate paper, and Columbia's Emergency Council, wartime substitute for the College Student Board, came to a head this week with the resignation of Spec's regular staff, authoritative Morningside campus authorities disclosed yesterday...
...Spec's managing board, unable to decide who should be editor-in-chief for next year, last week submitted the question to arbitration by the Emergency Council. The Council selected Edward Gold, Columbia '46, and the choice was unanimously accepted by the Spectator staff...
McKnight's motion was passed by the King's Crown Advisory Board, which has general direction of Columbia's undergraduate organizations. It was also accepted by the Emergency Council. A faculty committee of three was formed, with McKnight as its chairman, and members of the Spec staff were invited to submit their qualifications for managing board positions to this novel body...
...Spec Staff Quits
...sports editor, the committee picked Harry Coleman; another V-12 student, who was active with the Columbia crew. Coleman had been a candidate for the paper for one semester. Other editors named were veterans of the Spec staff, but as they considered the entire handling of the matter a violation of all precedent and of the Spectator constitution they, along with the other old members of the staff, refused to serve under the new editorial regime...