Advocate Closes Ranks after Rift About 'Artiness'

Peace returned to the Advocate last night after a week of conflict, during which three editors had resigned to from a new manazine.

In a full heard meeting, 15 Advocate editors elected Donald A. Hall, Jr, '51, of Hamden, Conn, and Eliot House, as presidetn; Daniel Elisberg '52, of Detroit and Lowell House, as Pegasus; and Leonard J. Friedman '51, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and Kirkland House as secretary.

It was at a meeting last Thursday to elect a president, that the Advocate's split first burst into the open. At that time three editors--A. Chase Shafer '51, William H. Wiggin '50, and Norris W. Darrell '51 resigned.

"Too Arty"

They claimed that the Advocate was too "arty," while Hall and Lloyd S. Gilmour '50, whose resignation as president had caused the meeting, maintained that it must continue to run literary items.

Shafer, Wiggin, and Darrell immediately announced plans to put out a magazine "by the Yale game." It will be called either "The Noon" or "The Luto and Lyre," will cost about 15 cents, and will rossmble Punch, they said.

But their departure did not completely heal the Advocate's internal rift. There were still dissentients who thought that the magazine had a way to go before it was cleared of "artiness."

Close Fight

Last night, Hall won the Presidency on a close ballot from Warren C. Moffet '51, who had led this "loyal opposition."

After the election, however, all concerned emphasized that the Advocate was now compltely reunited. Plans were made for the next issue.

Hall will serve out the remainder of Gilmour's term, until the regular elections in the spring, afte the paper's fifth issue. Gilmour had resigned because of pressure of a six-course wrok program and now becomes a senior editor.

Elisberg replaces Hall as Pegasus, literary chief of the magazine. Friedman was elected to take the plce of Wiggin as secretary.