Columbia Spectator Ho Ton Trail of Nazi Club, ‘100% American’

The Nazi Club of Columbia University, three weeks old and doing fine, which accepts only “hundred per cent Americans,” has the campus buzzing again over the possibility of trouble.

Yesterday’s Spectator, the university’s undergraduate daily which thrives on crusades, turned its editorial eyes on the club and made a desperate ironical lunge at the infant.

A column on page two, “The Stroller,” written by Ralph W. Bugli, says that there are “well substantiated rumors of the existence of a club for Nazis on Morningside” and then warns against “terrorism” on the campus.

“The organization numbers among its members many of the best Nordics in the college,” wrote Bugli. “There has always been anti-Semitism at Columbia. The mere formation of a club to discuss it cannot crystallize it any more than it has been.”

Bugli is fearful of a “minor terror campaign” on the otherwise peaceful campus. He bewails the fact that the club exists at all and quotes certain members as being mightily disappointed at the “intellectual superiority shown by non-Nordics in getting key positions on Spectator and other King’s Crown activities.”

The King’s Crown is an undergraduate organization which awards gold insignia for outstanding work in college activities. The editor-in-chief of Spectator is Arnold Beichman, a Jewish senior.

In a telephone conversation Bugli refused flatly to disclose the names of members of the Nazi Club, with whom he has passing acquaintance, he said. He said with conviction however, that the organization admits no Jewish students and that its membership is very upset over their failure to get high positions on the Spectator.

He said that all four classes are represented on the club.