Word: specs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...