Word: specs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I first tried to come out for, Spec I was told to go see somebody out in Brooklyn. I was given the impression that Spec was all sewed up and didn't need or want me. The Navy doesn't give a guy much chance to run out to Brooklyn, anyway...
...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...
Soon after, the Council approved a new Managing Board for Spec, selected by KCAC. Named as editor-in-chief of the new board was Stanley Smith, a tall, husky V-12er who is acting captain of Lou Little's football eleven, captain of Columbia's crew, and target of the ousted Spec...
Early in August, after three more issues of Spec had been put out by an interim board, the still-adamant staff announced that it would discontinue publication until fall, when it would receive reinforcements (returning editors) in its fight against the Council. But the Council wasn't sitting still; it named a five-man panel, including two V-12ers, to edit Jester...