David L. and Jonathan W. Lubell 2L resigned last week from their positions on the Law School Record as a result of pressure from members of the paper's staff and threats of possible withdrawal of alumni support of the weekly.

The Law School faculty, meanwhile, has postponed decision on what, if any, action it will take against the Lubells. The matter came up for lengthy discussion at a faculty meeting Tuesday. A two-thirds vote is necessary for the dismissal of a student from the school.

The twin brothers invoked the Fifth Amendment in testimony before the Jenner Committee on Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27. They refused to answer questions about Communist organizing activities at Cornell, New York, and the Law School, on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate them.

David Lubell resigned from the post of President of the Record and Jonathan from the Associate Editorship, to which they had been recently elected.

Lewis New President

Herbert D. Lewis 2L was elected President and Burton T. Gans 2L Associate Editor to replace them.

The resignations came after three special meetings and a week of often bitter wrangling among members of the Record.

On Wednesday, March 25, before the Jenner hearings, the Record decided by a margin of one vote to withdraw announcement of the Lubell's election from the next day's issue.

The editors were forced to delay distribution of the paper until Friday and to substitute for the election story a four-year-old article comparing the Harvard and Yale Law Schools.

Vote Down Dismissal

The Record called a second special meeting Sunday evening, after the hearings, at which the brothers placed their resignations on the table. The board voted, after three and a half hours of heated debate, to accept their resignations from their executive posts. The staff, however, turned down a proposal that the Lubells be immediately thrown off the paper.

In the next three days considerable pressure was brought on the Lubells to get them to quit the paper completely. It was also intimated that several important members of the Law School faculty were disturbed by the closeness of the two previous votes.

Another key factor was the proximity of the annual spring meeting of the Law School Alumni Association, at which it will decide whether or not to renew its annual contract to buy over 6,000 copies of the Record each week for mailing to alumni.

Several members of the Association have complained about this expenditure in the past. It was feared that if the Lubells stayed on the Record, the Alumni might decide that they could spend their money more wisely in other ways.

Quit Paper Completely