nmmeutatnr Official Undergraduate Newspaper of Yeshiva College October 25, 1988 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, 500 W. 185 St., N.Y., N.Y. 10033 VOL. Lill NO. 2 President Lamm

Delivers"State ofe. YU"Address by Behnam Dayanim College of Medicine would soon Dr. Norman Lamm, Presi­ resolve the delicate concerns of dent of Yeshiva University, both Montefiore Hospital and delivered his annual falladdress Long Island Medical Center on the state of the University at over a perceived .. incongruity" in an open meeting of the Execu­ its relations with the two hospi­ tive Council on October 11. The tals and called on the various SchottemteinCenter facade under construction . Council, composed of top departments of the University to administration members and view the impending Middle responsible for conducting the State accreditation review, con­ general affairs of the institution, ducted once every ten years, as a Schottenstein Center Update opened the meeting to those valuable opportunity for intro­ · students and faculty members spection and improvement Eric Melzer December 1st. The building will by the center. deemed "active and interested" rather than as a tedious chore. ope bottom Unanticipated structural n in phases from the When it is eventually 'com- in the University's well-being, Addressing the need for could · open by problems in the foundations of up. The theater pleted, the Schottenstein Center according to YU Executive Vice improvements, Dr. Lamm spe­ in that case, it would the Schottenstein Center, tlie March. But should be a major asset to the President, Dr. Egon Brenner. cifically mentioned the need to really not be of any benefit to the new home fora number of YC college. The basement will house The audience was composed improve the Jewish studies Dramatics Society. There would_ clubs and societies, have arisen, the theater, which is equipped mostly of administrators, how­ curriculum for all undergradu­ probably forcing the postpone- only be temporary facilities. with separate storage rooms for ever, with less than a dozen ates and to continue in attempts New problems involving the ment of the building's Grand props, scenery, and costumes. faculty members and a handful to alleviate the space problem hich Opening. building's structure arose � There will also be mechanical of, students, -all- from YC, in endemic to all YU campuses. After several initial del�ys, th,� .· _ �[�.��r;,i;�ptJt 9.-�_i�g��;.�.IJ;��!�·!t: . ro�ms,.. a .sound control .. room, attendance . Much of the remainder of the las . . center,focated.;pn.,:Sh;·Nlch� , r\l�i:�ls(?t,clJf(icul,t·t<:lr"'Work op.the·-· and-a ticket room. The'theater Though much of his speech President's speech dealt with winter. lam quite Avenue and 185th. 'Street, has 'building in the itself will seat 284 people and focused on the various graduate fiscalconcerns of the University. been scheduled for.completion sure that the theater will be open will also be able to accommo­ divisions of the University, Dr. Characterizing the financial , by December 1st. However, Mr. by September. By then we will date people in wheelchairs. Lamm did list several accomp­ picture as "not rosy,, Dr. Lamm Jay Blazer fromthe Department have permanent facilities." There will be a shul on the first lishments and shortcomings of revealed that fund raising had · of Facilities Management has Originally, there were numer- . floor which can hold about 500 the past year within the under­ not been able to keep pace with said that "there are additional ous objections that the building people. Its attractive features graduate schools, as well as recent increases in spending. He difficulties which may delay the did not conform with parts of include· nine stained glass win­ objectives for the future. pointed to the immensely suc­ building's opening for a while." New York City's building code. dows and a marble bi mah. Among the achievements cessful Centennial campaign Dr. Sheldon Socol, Vice Pres- However, Hector Melo, an According to Mr. Blazer, the cited was the significant increase and the simultaneous last­ ident of Business Affairs, elabo- . inspector, said that all objections shul will be used not only for in enrollment, attributable to minute rush of many philan­ �ated. "Target Builders really have been handled. This delay is davening, but for schoolhouse· increased demand for the dual thropists to contribute heavily has a little more time than one in a series that have plagued Continuedon Page 6. program and efforts to improve before tax reform laws took YU's academic and physical effect as factors in an inevitable environment, according to Pres­ decrease. Add to that the more ident Lamm. He also pointed forbidding economic climate in with pride to the success of the the wake of the stock market by Yechiel Gordon Max Stern Scholars Program crash of last year and the reason _On Wednesday evening, and the establishment of the for caution becomes apparent. • October 19th, on the firstanni­ similar SSSB Jacob Burns he stated. YU lost twelve million versary of the 1987 stock market . Scholarship, named in honor of dollars in that calamity, a figure crash, the SSSB Dean's Forum the major YU/ SSSB benefac­ br. Lamm called fairly modest hosted Dr. Kenneth Grossberg, tor. Dr. Lamm heralded the due to prudent management by Professor of Marketing, to growth of the Torah U'Mada the Investment Committee. lecture on the busir,ess perspec­ Project from a "modest pro­ Nevertheless, he said the lo� still tives ·between J�if�n. a�d .the gram?' involving a few students hurt, particularly since mi¢h of Jews. Dr. Grosst>i;:earned�his •. ,to orie that has "raised the level · the money pledged· in the:afore­ M.A. and Ph.D in Politics and of discourse" on both under­ rnentionedCentennial drive and East Asian Studies from Prin­ graduate campuses. Further­ at such events as the annual ceton University. He also stud­ more, he praised the quality and Chanukah Dinner is not readily ied at the University of Tokyo dedication of the facultyin all of available for a variety of rea­ forseveral years. In 1973, he was YU's divisions and particularly sons. These include the nature of elected a Junior Fellow of the noted needed additions to the the time spans of the gifts, some prestigious Harvard Society of . Cardozo School of Law. pledged years in advance, res­ Fellows and spent the next Finally, Dr. Lamm expressed trictions on the purposes for several years teaching, writing, addres.ws Dr. Kenneth G�berg studentaudience. hope that the Albert Einstein Continued on Page4. and continuing his research. In that period, he published three fully explain the business rela­ venom? books. In 1983, he · founded tionship between the Jew and At present, the maximum OrienfWest Consultants Inc., a Japanese. He stated that over number of Jews in Japan has In This Issue firm that specializes in helping the past several years many been placed at around two American companies succeed in articles have appeared in Japa­ thousand. Dr. Grossberg Asia-Pacific· markets. In 1984, nese newspapers with anti­ explained that the sources of • American and Israeli Election Coverage, p. 8-11 Citibank hired him as their full­o Serpiticovertones. He addressed anti-Semitism are the Christian time strategy chief in Tokyo fr the question of why the Japa­ missionaries and Western anti­ • Commentator "On-Site" Survey,p. 14 their consumer branch in the nese would increase their anti­ Semitic literature, translated Asia-Pacific region. Semitism now and, especially into Japanese. There had been a Dr. Grossberg began his lec­ with the Japanese so economi­ ban on these missionaries, but it • New Basketball Assistant Coach, p. 16 ture with the topic of anti­ cally powerful, why would they was lifted in 1873, resulting in Semitism in Japan in order to attack the Jews with such Continued on Page S. October 25,1988 Page2 The Commentator EDITORIALS------

YU's Poll Tax 500 West 185th Street,New York,New York 10033, 923-6320.Published bl-weekly during the academic yearby the Yeshiva CollegeStudent Council.The views expressed In thesecolumns are thoseof the writer�only, and do not reflect Once again, the YC student body finds itself complaining of in�o�side�ation b� the the opinion· of The Commentator, the student body, the faculty, or the Administration. The subject this time is Election Day. The Admm1strat1on provided admlnlstrdtion of Yeshiva University.We do not endorseany of the products no free time on November 8th for students to either vote at home or at a nearby booth or servicesadvertised in these pages. in the Heights. For most schools, this would pose no real obstacle for the stude�ts, however for a YC student who finds no respite in his schedule between the mormng GOVERNING BOARD and eve�ing, this inconsiderate policy poses a most disturbing possibility of students not voting. BEHN AM DAYANIM Editor�in-Chief

Not Another Council, Please DOV J. PINCHOT LARRY HARTSTEIN Executive Editor Senior Editor YCSC Last year, amid much controversy, two new positions w�re created on the _ Executive Board. The Vice Presidency was divided into two, one representmg the BARRY KAYE ASHER D. WOLMARK liberal arts division and one the new business school. In addition, the Vice President LEE NIREN JEFFREY MENDELSON for Business Affairs was granted by the Student Council the right to form an Coordinating Editors Business Editors "association" of which he would be "President." The Vice President for Liberal Arts, elected solely by Yeshiva College students, was to sit as an observer at all meetings JOSHUA FRUCHTER STEVEN MAJOR of the new association. LARRY PORTAL BRUCE SCHANZER This complex arrangement, concluded only after severe pressure exerted_ on a Feature Editors News Editors reluctant Student Council by the SSSB administration, has now resulted m the unfortunate confusion against which THE COMMENTATOR unsuccessfullyargued BARRY DINER AVRAM GOLDSTEIN last year. JEFFREY GROSS The wording of the amendment to the YCSC Constitution, as distinct from those ARYEH WIENER JOSEPH LOSKOVE Copy Editors provisions adopted at SCW, deliberately emphasized that the new SSSBSA �as not to be a council, but rather a subsidiary organization of the umbrella Council. The ALEC J. sroNE Layout Editors JEFFREY LUMERMAN "president" of SSSBSA is not a Council P�esident _on par _with the YCSC_ Presi��nt or, forthat matter, even the established Jewish Studies Presidents. In fact,his position -JONATHAN KATZAUER MITCHELL NATHANSON Sports Editors is more closely comparable to that of the Vice President for Liberal Arts or the Photo�raphy Editor president of any society on campus. The very fact thatthe remaining officers of the Council are elected by ALL of the students attests to the fact that every undergraduate male student of YU is represented by YCSC. Already we can see the first fruits of the unwise acquiescence of last year's Council STAFF: to this confusing, byzantine arrangement. The Vice President for Business Affairshas Associate Editor for Religion:_ A. JeffIfrah been mystifyingly included in the weekly Presidents' meetings held with the Dean of Photography: Joshua Sindler Students to discuss variousissues of concern, diluting the already fragmented student Writing: representation to the administration even further. Additionally, the SSSBSA is Alex Wittenberg, Elisha Tropper, Allen Eisenberg, planning to write its own constitution independent of that of YCSC, a privilege Jonathan Miskin, Reuben I. Levine, Shmuel Bulka specifically denied it by virtue of its status as a subsidiary of the Council and, at any General: Jeff Fleisher rate, entirely superfluousas the association's functions and respon:;ibilitiesare clearly .A;,_.Barry Finkelstein delineated in last year's amendment to the YCSC Constitution calling for its founding. Any desired changes may be made through that route. Now, SSSBSA indicates that it would like to be included in councils' sponsorship of various events, none of which­ are remotely related to the specifically business-oriented functions'for which it was intended. THE COMMENTATOR is unaware of any other society on campus ever being accorded that prerogative. Much of the blame for this year's chaos, which has caused regrettable acrimony on · en(jayements both sides of the dispute, lies with Dean of Students, Dr. Nulman, who, after initial - hesitancy, vigorously pressured the Council into last year's agreement and, during the & first few weeks of this term, encouraged practices of the sort mentioned_ above. ROBeQt tev,nson estyhochsaum However, it seems Dean Nulman has realized his excesses as he has publicly stated that any constitution drafted by SSSBSA must be approved by YCSC or his office schtomo GOlbstetn .& susan e1chelsaum will not honor it. Even more welcome is YCSC President Mordy Leifer'stough stance indicating his belief that any constitution for the Association is unnecessary in light mazel tov of the already adopted amendment. Both these figures should maintain their positions in the face of the intense pressurethat is sure to follow from an administration so intent on justifying and publicizing the creation of th_e valuable business school itself that it ignores the merits of the arguments concerning other aspects of its existence. In the future THE COMMENTATOR will only Regrettably, much of the fallout from this debate may hurt the fle�ling SSSB in its attempts to establish itself as a vital part of the University or stir up resentment announce engagenJents· submitted to THE of its Association's board. That is not at all intended. The lesson that can be learned COMMENTATOR mail ox in the Dean� Office. from this fiasco is that, at the end of this school year, in order to avoid unnecessary � harm to sincere and dedicated students already in leadership positions, the experiment known as the SSSBSA should end. A viable outlet for SSSB students ,can be maintained through the continuation of the two Vice Presidents concept and the existence of a Joint Business Society under the auspices of YCSC. Furthermore, academic deans of the various schools at YU should attend to the business for which they are uniquely qualified: academics. Should the academic office of SSSB devote THE COMMENTATOR"On-SiteSurvey" · its energies solely to those areas, it would do more to ensconce SSSB iri the - consciousness of the University than would any amount of political posturing and appears in �his issue· on page 14. · interference in student governmental affairs. A harsh bit of mussar, but, in light of what we are all witnessing, entirely justified. Trashing Torah U'Mada ______THE COMMENTATOR will not sit idly by as Yeshiva University takes in attack support such programs." Ironically, by presenting his e>versimplified analysis in such after attack to her philosophic foundation, Torah U'Mada - whether.the aggressor a surprisingly unprofessionalmanner, it is the vainglorious and opinionated Professor be found without or within the University itself. The latest recreant assault was an Eidelberg who is culpable of misleading. article in the October seventh issue of The Jewish Press, written by last year's visiting There exists a different, but nevertheless, serious challenge to Torali U'Mada professor at YU, Paul Eidelberg. Professor Eidelberg, claiming the ability to speak festering within the walls of the University itself.. This souring and in some cases without prejudice, expressed not the slightest humility in viciously discrediting a outright rejection of the Yeshiva's philosophy by certain Ro�hei Yeshiva is an affront philosophy supported by such men of immense stature as Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik, to the Moreh D'Asrah of YU, Rabbi Norman Lamm. Tlie Torah U'Mada lecture YU President Norman Lamm, and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein. This Professor of series has, more often than not, provided a forum forspeculation on the validity and political science seems quite at home lecturing these Rabbanim (all of whom have utility of Torah U'Mada, rather than an exploration of positive approaches to this received Ph.Os in the humanities) on what truths may be gleamed from a purely Judaic philosophy. education. Professor Eidelberg pretentiously accuses these men, and in fact all who Torah is, without any question, primary in the cultural synthesis espoused by YU support the ideal of Torah U'Mada, of obliviousness to the corrosive effectof moral · If the individuals who teach the Torah side reject the desirability of this synthesis, the relativism. But he cannot withold himself from going one step further: "The salesmen _ philosophic foundation of this unique Yeshiva University wi!I never attain the of Torah U'Mada are misleading Jewish students and, of course, philanthropists who greatness to which it aspires. October 25, 1988· The Commentator Page 3 mentality, the reflexive subser- . vience to authority, that domi­ nates our' religious perspective. We must instinctively recognize that secular political authority is Attention Seniors From tile not necessarily synonymous . with superior wisdom or schol- arship and constitutional inter­ If you are interested in on campus interviews in business, Editors DesK p-retation does not rely on computers, finance, or marketing, please contact the Sy by Behnam Dayanim masorah and oral transmission. Syms School of Business, immediately. More significantly, this intel- lectual renaissance must cut Many internal contradictions In this area from which the both ways. We must pay more inherent in the . credo of an pronounced Jewish predilection attention to the ultimately Belfer 412 Stern 905· Orthodox Jew who professes a toward economic liberalism . accepted maverick elements in socially liberal political agenda springs comes also the severe our own religious history, the 960-0845 arise from differing conceptions backlash toward social freedoms Pharisees for example, and the of the nature of authority and to pursue "evil" actions. When wide range of divergence and communal responsibility. The one person hurts himself, he or . dissent on almost every conceiv­ modern liberal advocates an she spiritually wounds the entire able hashkafic issue. More essentially· libe�tarian agenda, community and offends God. · recently, we can look with pride encompassing the implicit con­ Though in the past the strug- to the bold leadership of Rav stitutional right to privacy, while gle for civil rights and economic Yosef Soloveitchik, "the Rav" the Orthodox Jew learns to _ equity has induced the. Ort�o- who influenced more than any Student Court 1988-89 accept strict rabbinical authority dox Jew to identify with liberal other the present state of Mod­ in all religious matters of inter­ ideologies, the increasingly visi- ern Orthodoxy (now "Centrist") pretation and acquires a strong ble social agenda, combined at YU and at large. For those David Aidelson - Chief Justice sense of responsibility for the with increased economic• sue- who forget or have never heard, welfare of members of the cess, is now pushing that · same his pronouncements at times community. Jew and his child�en steadily defied the strongly expressed Jeffrey Gross - Associate Justice Within the purely social rightward. collective opinion of his few sphere, the liberal tends to adopt For me, an unabashed liberal peers, yet today many of these a somewhat anti-authoritarian in an age when such an appella- are regarded among our com- Matthew Braunshweiger - Senior.Justice aura, rejecting governmental tion seems more an epithet eerily · munity as settled. intrusion into sensitive aspects reminiscent of the term "Com- None of us nor our leaders of an individual's lifestyle and munist" during the darkest days can lay claim to the immense Fred Zemel - Senior Justice personal moral code, with which of the conservative McCarthy wisdom and piety of such a man. the traditional Orthodox Jew era (two can play the label game, Nor do I ignore the unfortunate, Barry Hawk - Junior Justice can never feel entirely comfort­ Mr. Bush), this presents severe temporary lack of both a able. The nature of religious philosophical difficulties. I Sanhedrin and true Semikha in tradition relies heavily on rab­ appear as either an intellecfual the original sense. Yet we all Ethan Benovitz - Clerk binical authority, to the point hypocrite or a well-meani_ng bear the responsibility of educat­ where, even on matters of reli­ observant Jew unfortunately ing ourselves in our religious gious philosophy rather than . contaminated by Western cul- heritage and in rigorously criti­ Shmu Katz - Bailiff actual law, the most vocal ture antithetical to the true path. cal thinking, so that we may · dissenter invariably seeks to find Neither explanation is flattering challenge, probe, and ultimately some respected rabbinical and I believe neither to be arrive at points of view concern­ source· to support his or her accurate. ing the innumerable areas of contention. This ingrained incli­ We live in a pluralistic society hashkafic uncertainty. nation toward an oligarchic founded upon a premise of Within the realm of thought, structure in the theological diversity of thought and free- distinguished from that of law, sphere negatively influences the dom of action. Though I, as a much room for informed dis­ Jewish attitude toward per­ "frum" Jew may find abortion agreement exists within our Election Results ceived rebelliousness in the upon demand morally unaccep- Orthodox tradition. We should secular realm as well. table, I may not impose my not forego that opportunity for Additionally, John Locke's value system on someone who constructive engagement of concept of individual sover­ does not share it. Even the seven , these problems, studying the Jr. Class Special Election eignty and independence of Noahide laws, guidelines of . numerous opinions of Chazal action findsscant concurrence in behavior forall peoples regard- and modern Gedolim and for­ the traditional Jewish mindset. less of religion, _may be subject mulating our own purely per-· President - Edward Stelzer While the liberal may proclaim only to the jurisdiction of a scinalresponses that may or may the freedom to pursue any Jewish Beit Din, and by exten- not directly coincide with a action that does not directly sion a Jewish society, and in previously recorded position. harm another, the Jew views none of these classically Hberal The current absence of such an members of the community as issues do I find incontrovertible atmosphere in all Orthodox Freshman Class Election: interdependent. The individual proof that a Noahide prohibi- circles,.even the most progres­ is "his brother's keeper" and as tion is indeed violated. sive, speaks ill of our academic such bears responsibility for In order to participate fully in integrity and precludes the preventing harm and suffering, a democratic. society, 'we must reemergence of a truly liberal President - Behzad Dayanim even· that which• is self-inflicted. free ourselves from the flock Orthodox Jew. Watch for theannual YCSCj SCWSC Vice President - Jonathan Paley ·•·Responsa Chanukah Concert ComingSoon! Treasurer - Steven Lauderdale Lasco Connection Announcement provided courtesy of The Commenta-t or CARTOON COMMENT

!T ONE l)A'( SOfY/£ /00 _ YEARS A Go TO JZA AND SO To the Editor: HEYJ yo u C:rO T H WAS 1HA T In your two comprehensive· IN f>'/Y MA DA f ( Y. U, G-07 /'I'S IJOT �O Wt;.L..1..- and informative articles on the .<_,JO w,.J Macs (�eptember 8, 1988), you . orn START. wrote about a fineyoung pros­ e,O_ you G-OT ;,r/A bA pect from Miami, John Lasco. 'N /11 y TOR A H ( l What you didn't tell the readers, though, was that Sam Lasco, John's father, was the manager a� of the Macs (then known as the Mighty Mites) in the . mid­ l 960's. At YU, history and "P."'r,t< tradition are precious commod­ ities, even concerning the bas­ ketball team. Joseph C. Kaplan YC'68 Teaneck, NJ Page4 The Commentator October 25, 1988 Improved Warhol CAMPUS NEWS Review Cafeteria Forum on Academic Integrity at YU Salad Discusses Student Honesty Museum "Forum on Academic Integ­ Other student panelists sug- atmosphere of YU as the major by Gilaad Deutsch Service rity," a recent symposium spon­ . gested the "honor system" as an cause of cheating. Students, he Andy Warhol's "Ten Por­ by Da,·id Sheffey sored by the Faculty/Student alternative to current YU policy. feels, will act dishonestly if it traits of Jews in the Twentieth There is now an alternative to Affairs Committee, turned out Some had taken courses at other means good grades, good grad..: Century" will be exhibited in the junk food at Yeshiva University. to be a very stimulating and colleges under that system and uate schools and good jobs. YU Museum this fall. Produced With the new fruit/ salad bar in meaningful discussion ·for the were impressed with its results. The most significant thing in 1980, this project was the the cafeteria. you can put your very few who attended. Dr. Carl Feit, a biology profes­ about "Forum on Academic brainchild.of Manhattan gallery money to better use than by Dr. Richard Nochimson, sor, agreed that the system could Integrity" is that it took place. owner Ronald Feldman, a per­ buying simple carbohydrates. chairman of the committee and work at YU but only in an Students and teachers have sonal friend of the recently The man responsible for this master of ceremonies for the environment where the notion is realized the . need 'to actively deceased pop artist. Originally new addition to the cafeteria is evening-, called the forum prevalent that "cheating is combat cheating and have conceived by an Israeli publisher Mr. Jacob Lieberman, the new "potentially very valuable" and shameful." joined forces to create an aca­ as one silkscreen of late Israeli Director of Food Services at did not understand the low Rabbi Y osef Blau singled out demically honest YU. Prime Minister Golda Meir, the Yeshiva University. Basically. he turnout. "I suppose people felt the pressurized, career-obsessed undertaking soon evolved into explained. a new level of health they had other things to do," he an accumulation of ten works consciousness prompted the said. A lack of publicity may depicting various personalities creation of this service. have been the culprit; many Swimming Facility Delayed ranging from poet Gertrude The fruits and vegetables are students surveyed on campus by Bruce Schanzer Dr. Socol comments that Stein to Dr. Sigmund Freud. delivered fresh every day after said they were unaware of the preliminary tests and architec­ The eclectic selection was due being purchased from the Hunt event. The Gottesman Pool, a multi­ tural plans have been completed, in great part to economy rather Point Market. Mr. Lieberman · Still, any program designed to million dollar facility donated and that the University is still in than to the artist's personal maintains that his "highest reduce the cheating problems of by the Gottesman family of Rye, the process of organizing ttie - preferences. Warhol, a self­ priority is the students." and that last semester has to be viewed as New York, is one of the most subcontractors and the mate­ described "business artist," "they have to be happy with the a step in the right direction. ambitious undertakings in the rials, as well as garneri�g further , sought to manufacture a _collec­ food they eat." According to student panelist University's Centennial Devel­ funds. sew tion appealing to as many One question that students Jeff Ifrah, a senior, teachers opment program. This facility Concerning its use by buyers as possible. The origina­ have had. though. has been the could be doing much more to will have a 25-meter pool with students, Dean of Students, Dr. tor of mass-produced art, which cost of twenty cents per ounce prevent cheating than they five lanes, a whirlpool, a sauna, Efrem Nulman, states emphati­ he churned out in his studio for a salad and fifty cents fora currently do. He told the story of and a showroom, as well as cally that "the pool is for YC called "The Factory," Warhol fruit. Perhaps that is a valid a teacher who knew a copy ofhis showers, lockers, and a lounge. students _only-and you can always had his eye set on the complaint for students living on test was circulating among Scheduled to begin construction quote me on that." bottom line-money. And he a budget. but, in comparison to students before the exam and in the fall of 1988, this project In two to three weeks, stud.ent profited greatly from this ven­ the prices of similar services at did nothing except give the very has met with a number of delays leaders will have a meeting to ture, selling all 200 limited other universities' kosher cafete­ test he knew many of them had and, according to YU Vice provide input concerning the edition portfolios for $12,000 rias. the YU cafeteria prices already seen. lfrah also called President for Business Affairs blueprints beforethe plans are to each. seem fair. N.Y.U. also charges for mandatory attendance and Sheldon Socol, will not be built be finalized. After this meeting This is not to say that there .is twenty cents per ounce of their more assignments to keep stu­ until the weather permits in late the final plans forthe pool will no artistic merit to Warhol's salad, while Columbia requires dents "on their toes." spring. begin to take shape. work: The silkscreen process, students to buy salads with their besides facilitatingthe monetary meals, which almost always cost According to the Forbes 400 1988 benefit of mass-production, also · a flat fee of six dollars. (The provides certain aesthetic quali­ salad bar there, though, is an all­ List, Universities with the Highest ties. The portraits are monu­ you-can-eat bar.) mental, colorful tributes to'some Mr. Lieberman says that he is Net WorthAmong Graduates are: of the greatest personalities of "always open for new ideas." Yet our time. . he needs serious and regular Each print is over four "feet input from the student body. Princeton $763 million high and three feet wide. The Although he has received some N.Y.U. $756 million works are so large that only four feedback. he feels that it has not frames that the museum cur­ been enough. In two to three Stanford $714 m.illion rently possesses are big enough weeks. a survey will be distrib­ Columbia $629 million . to hold them. Therefore, only uted by the Food Services fourportraits can be shown at a Committee. says Shmuel Katz. Yale $61 8 million time. The first four selected are the Committee's head, to those of Martin Buber, Albert uncover student opinions M.I.T. $584 million Einstein, Franz Kafka, and regarding the food services. He Harvard $484 million Meir. Sarah Bernhardt, Louis added that it is important for Brandeis, Freud, George Gersh­ each student to make sugges­ YESHIVA $375 million win, Stein, and the Marx Broth­ tions and voice any displeasures. ers are on reserve forlater. Continuedfrom Page1. YU does eschew such gifts on million dollars, though he fiscal responsibility in all dep�rt­ people. The issue of faculty which the money may be used, occasion, if their acceptance declined to describe its distribu- · ments of the University. In· salaries has proven contentious and the ability of YU to draw would "skew educational priori­ tion among the various schools. addition, he cited the skyrocket­ in the past, involving a landmark only on the interest of those ties," according to the President. Blaming increased costs on· . · ing expense of insurance premi­ Supreme Court case which the funds donated to the Endow­ Dr. Lamm did laud the government_ attempts to reduce urns as contributing to the faculty lost;· and generally sub­ ment Fund of the University. growth in the Endowment reimbursement of federally general financial strain. In an stantiated allegations that aver­ Dr. Lamm explained that the Fund, backbone of any credible s onsored research, congres- area of much conC(lrnamong the age faculty compensation lags . p . second type of gift, that with university, from 34 million s10nal attempts to tax endow- faculty, he pointedly promised behindthat of most comparable restrictions on use, accounts for dollars ten years ago toapprox­ ment funds and make donations to improve salaries "as best we universities. the sometimes mystifying deci­ imately 130 million dollars more difficult, and new regula- can" without excessively raising Dr. Lamm concluded by sions by YU to proceed with today.. tions in the areas of discrimina- tuition and compromising . the reminding those present of the some worthy project while neg­ The President placed the tion prevention and asbestos, institutional mission of offering difficulties experienced by the lecting more immediate needs. 1988-89 operating budget at 250 Dr. Lamm stressed the need for a . YU education to deserving institution in the 1970's when YU became insolvent and Tel. 928-7793 almost had to declare bank­ tJniJys The Kosher Inn· ruptcy. -The President pledged that he, the Board 'of Trustees, * 93eauty Salon * (Pizza Plus) and the boards of · the various -· CLJ,iisex schools "cannot, dare not, and � • 2500 Amsterdam Ave. (Corner 184th) will not spend in excess of our HAIRCUTTING • PERMANENTS revenue" again and declared, in TINTS • DESRIZADOS Bring .Ad. a phrase perhaps unintention­ MANICURE • PEDICURE l'or livery ho Slices ally evocative of the l 960's,"We shall overcome." 2557 AMSTERDAM AVE. 187 ST., N. Y. One l'ree., Soda . Expires Nov. 4th October 25, 1988 The Commentator Page 5

said Sarasohn. As it is, the new electronic board from Radio WYURLoses Transmitter Systems will be portable enough Dr. Yehuda to be moved easily from the Dr. Don entered Hebrew Student Activities building to University as a member of the Schottenstein. Don: SSSB first class of soldiers discharged Yet the temptation to wait for from the Israel Defense Forces Hopes to Returnby Dec.) Schottenstein was probably not after the war. His "accidental" the only factor involved in Professor interest in economics was by Larry Hartstein delaying the purchase of a new aroused by a "boasting fellow" WYU R's 21st ·season failed to semester. board. According lo Dr. Efrem who claimed it to be the most get underway this month when The collapse of the station's Nulman, Dean of Students, the SuMved Nazis, difficult department where only its ailing transmitter died, killing board came as no surprise to transition between Student the elite student could achieve an along with it the bulk of. the many WYUR officers. "Anyone Council administrations makes "A" grade. Dr. Don accepted the station's first semester who's heard it the last year or it difficult to appropriate funds Fought in Palmach challenge and earned an "A". He programming. two knows about the buzz that's over the summer for items not graduated from Hebrew Univer­ Station Manager Jeff Sara- been over the air," said Sara­ required on a yearly basis. The by Avrum Aaron sity in 1951 and received his From the calm and soft­ sohn, who discovered the elec- sohn. "One of the sad policies of new board is a one-time spoken manner in which Dr. tronic board to be inoperative YU is, 'If it hasn't broken yet, expense, and apparently only Yehuda Don expresses himself, upon his return to YU after wait 'till it breaks before we buy the complete breakdown of the one would be hard pressed to Sukkot vacation, hopes the new a new cine,"' added old board was able to force the imagine the many hardships of board will arrive in time to start Programming Director Shmuel wheels of progress in motion. his earlier years. Dr. Don occu­ broadcasting on December 5th. Katz. "With a little foresight we The new. board will cost pies the Ludwig Jesselson Chair . Because reading week would would have been starting in the approximately $7500,according in Economics and he teaches lurk only a few weeks away, middle of October." to Sarasohn, with the student Principles II and WYUR plans to air only special Still, Sarasohn believes, the councils of YC and SCW shar­ Microeconomics. programming, such as remotes upcoming move of the station to ing the bill equally. Societies and Dr. Don was born in Budap­ from Bernstein's restaurant and the Schottenstein Center made clubs will feel the expense. "Each · est, Hungary in 1930. Through Maccabees' basketball games, renovations on the current setup society is definitely going to get the intervention of the King of through the end of the first in the Student Activities build­ a little bit less," said YCSC Sweden and a series of forged semester. Regular program- ing inconvenient. "It is a lot of President Mor.diLeifer. "People papers, he was saved, along with ming, student-hosted shows that money to lay out if you're going !ire going to have to manage a large number of other Budap­ are the heart of WYUR's sched- to move. So we'd been doing our their budgets ' very carefully," est Jews, fromdeportation to the ule, will most likely begin next best to keep the board alive," said Dr. Nulman. Nazi death camps. After the war, in which he lost a large part of his family, he refused "to Dr. Yehuda believe the regimes of the world" Don when they offered safe return to doctorate from the London their remaining Jewish popula­ School of Economics in 1961. tions and decided to emigrate to Dr. Don began his teaching Palestine. For the next two years career at Hebrew University and he met with much opposition in accepted an invitation to lecture his effort to settle in Palestine. at Bar-llan at its inception. In He spent one year in a camp for addition, Dr. Don has taught at displaced persons in Germany, many American universities. three months in a D.P. camp in including Harvard and U.C.­ southern France, and nine Berkeley. months in jail on the island of When speaking of his YU Cyprus for attempting to enter students, Dr. Don's voice Palestine. assumes a joyous pitch. "I love Shortly before the United YU students because they are Nations decision to establish a smart. Most are very gifted in Over150 students attended the SSSB JobsFair, hopingto make b� contacts.Pictured is SSSB SAPresident Bruce Taragin Jewish homeland, Dr. Don their potential intellectual abili­ and a ftrm representath·e. ....------received permission to settle in ties." He compares YU students ------1 Palestine. He recounts that "in to those at Harvard and Berke­ Japa ______. exploit the Japanese. strong and finandally success- the next four years passed four ley. On a less laudatory note, he continuedfrom page I. Dr; Grossberg pointed out futMasami concludes that only decades." He served in a reli­ adds that "they try to optimize that the Japanese have consist- Japan and the Soviet Union can popt,1larization of the f�age of gious unit of the Palmach on their presence in class," in an ently towed an anti-Israel line, stand in the way of Jewish attempt to achieve "the highest the Jew as Christ killer. That Kibbutz Sdeh Eliyahu during domination. Another anti- the Independence Dur­ grade with the least amount of same year saw the translation of due to their strong reliance on War of . Arab oil. In 1973, they joined in Semite, Kometami, has received ing these four years, he helped studies." On the whole, he The Merchant of Venice and its two liferary prizes forhis efforts. mandatory introduction into the an embargo on goods to Israel. found the settlement of Nir considers his job "a challenge, Although there •is a very Galim. most interesting and pleasing." high school curriculum. Japa­ "Ironically," Dr. Grossberg explained, "this was a blessing negative image of the Jews in nese dictionaries definethe word . forIsrael -if the Japanese would Japan, the Jews have suffered no increase in Japanese tourism. Jew with "unflattering syn­ discrimination as a result. Dr. sonally feels Japan is a vel) export their goods to Israel this Dr. Grossberg belieyes that onyms," such as usurer, miser, Grossberg feels there is a tre­ important country for the Jew5 would destroy the Israeli Israel is suffering from what he in the coming century and that and evil merchant. mendous need to economy." educate the calls an "American disease, a outreach to the Japanese in the Past alliances and experiences Japanese about the Jews, for There are many examples of short term profit orentation and forms of banking, building a have badly- tarnished the image tremend0us trade open anti-Semitism in Japan pote·ntial a lack of strategic vision for of the Jew in Japan. Among exiSts between Israel and Japan. cultural center or University. these were the anti-Semitic today. Jewish literature fnbook- one's company or industry." He and more person to person is under "Jewish During the past few years refers .to America because "the propaganda in tl}e, era of the stores labeled there has contact in the way of tourism creating the impres- been a steady increase Americans are the major power Bolshevick Revol�tion, the alli­ Problems," in bilateral would be highly beneficial. It i5 sion that even legitimate_ works trade betweenJapan guilty of this disease; the Euro­ ance in the Seconq; .World War and Israel. imperative to teach who the somehow grant insight into In 1985, the trade peans tend to have a longer term to the Nazis,and an anti-Semitic numbers betweenthe two coun­ Jewish people really are since for solving the "Jewish Problem.''. perspective and as a result the most part the information platformin the election of 1935, tries were 350 million doliars. In European companies tend to do available to the Japanese about calling forthe murder of all Jews Uno Masami, a popular funda- 1986, the figuresalmost dou bled better than American compa­ the Jews and Israel are lies under Japanese control. Dr. mentalist Christian Minister, to 630 million, and in 1987 . these nies in the Japanese market." Thus, Dr. Grossberg felt it wru Grossberg also·pointed out that has written a number of anti- figures reached 850 million necessary to lay open the histor• there have been Japanese who Semitic books. He believes that dollars. Currently, Japan "trades The Japanese have offered ical foundations of Japanese have rejected the anti-Jewish the recent rise in the value •"f the more with Israel than with Israel the opportunity to set up anti-Semitism in order tc propaganda, citing the example Yen is part of an international Poland, Yugoslavia, and Nor- a banking industry, but, due to of Sugihara Sempo, who plot to destroy Japan. He has way. Israeli exports have risen the cost involved, Israel has express the extreme importance secretly provided visas to Jews · stated that the United States 5 %, mainly shown little interest. Dr. Gross­ of developing outreach pro­ · � behind diamond escaping Nazi occupation. economy is controlled by four and agricultural exports, while berg feels this is a tremendous grams, since the Jewish commu• nities have not given the Japa• After World War II many powerful Jewish families: the · Japanese exports to Israel have error in Israeli judgement American businesses were afraid Rockefellers, Mellons, Mor- risen 23%. Last spring Mitsubi­ because "these financial institu­ nese enough importance as to do business with Japan, but gans, and Duponts - while the shi started selling cars in Israel, tions are not just banks, but friends.andtrading partners who some ; small Jewish firms did President is · advised by two in defianceof the Arab boycott. conduits in a foreign country fo1 will be significant in the centu1y start transacting with· the J apa­ Jewish advisors, Shultz and During the past year, a Japa­ trade and relations. Without to come for both the United nese. However, instead offeeling Weinberger. Dr. Grossberg nese Foreign Minister visited them, there is a tremendom States and Israel. gratitude toward the Jews , for emphasized that to the Japanese · Israel for. the f,irst time ever. liability; the embassy can onl} VU RECRUITING: helping them recover, the Japa­ it is not obvious who· is not Sin"c:e then, sixteen different do so much." ACTIVE SOCIAL LIFE nese began to spread the image Jewish, since the accepted image delegations have visited Israel. Dr; Grossberg concluded the LUSH CAMPUS of Jewish traders . coming to of the Jew is someone politically . The past year has seen a 50% forum expressing that he per- Page 6 The Commentator October 25, 1988 The President Speaks �����: Test P��!re�ned; Rum���g,��2���goes,, by Mordy Leifer Nervously awaiting his arrival A group of frustrated students extremes to protect his The Student Council would appeal to the students' interests. in order to start the exam, appropriately proceeded to students." like to welcome everybody back These groups are for you. I urge Professor Irving J. Borowitz Dean Rosenfeld's office. In a Professor Borowitz offered from their vacations and we you to capitalize fully on the stunned his organic chemistry statement to these students, yet a differrent account of what hope that everyone will once potential to become involved in students by angrily proclaiming Dean Rosenfeld declared, "there had transpired. Not mentioning again acclimate themselves to the organizations that appeal to that their exam could not be is a rotten apple in the organic anything about a student infor­ University life in both academic you. administered at that scheduled chemistry class; somebody has mant, Professor Borowitz said and extracurricular activities. Yet a primary obligation of time. The exam, therefore, acquired the exam and is selling that Dr.· Brenner had told him The Yeshiva College Student the Student Council is to man­ would be postponed. Professor it." Upon being questioned on that "a copy of the test papei:had Council will play a vital role age your monies, our budget, Borowitz explained that he had the verity of this charge, the been found in a waste paper during your years at Yeshiva, responsibly. Consequently, at been informed by Dr. Egon Dean contended that the admin­ basket." As of yet, no concrete supplementing your education times we will be forced to deny Brenner, YU Executive Vice istration's source of information proof has been presented to by meeting the student need for the monetary requests of partic­ President, that "the exam was was probably true; that •is, a substantiate either version. a ''life outside of the classroom." ular clubs or societies. for sale.'·' "trustworthy and reliable". stu­ So, what really happened? The general functions of the It is with this in mind that we An aura of shock and outrage dent had informed Dr. Brenner Which one if these two stories is Student Council are to represent would appreciate your under­ permeated the room in a matter of this incident. Furthermore, true, if any? Or was this entire of seconds. The level of intensity Dean Rosenfeld said, on Profes­ episode merely the result of a the needs of the students of YC/ standing our goals and objec­ · SSSB to the administration and tives. YCSC ought not to spon­ radiated by a class of eage� and sor Borowitz's behalf, that the rumor? Indeed, many Yeshiva to enrich the YC/SSSB stu- sor every event, but, rather, the devoted students no longer new test would be completely College students are eager to dents' extracurricular lives. In individual clubs and societies prevailed. The tense mood, comparable to the original ascertain the answers to these order to succeed in perfor�ing should sponsor the events with derived froma mindset based on exam. Reassuring these stu­ questions; to determine what is the former,the Student Council reasonable fiscal covstraints. an anticipation of their first dents, Dean Rosenfeld added, factand what is fiction. will allot designated times Nevertheless, YCSC has thus exam in organic chemistry, was "Professor Borowitz is a very throughout the semester for far staged a very successful SCHOTTENSTEIN open meetings, at which stu- theater party for all freshmen CLASSIFIED Continued from Page 1. dents fromall classes will be able during their orientation. In lectures as well. to address their needs and addition, the turnout at the The second floor will be the express their individual opinions Senior Classes' annual "Wel­ new home for the Belz School of on appropriate subjects of con- come Back Party" was unprece­ Music. The floor will contain cern. In addition, my room and dented. The Junior Class, under fivemusic rooms, three practice telephone numbers are available the direction of Eric Rothman, JOB�IN AU�TRALIA rooms, four sound rooms, and for those who wish to speak with sponsored a night on the ice at one recital room. The third floor me privately or to draw my Sky Rink, which also proved to Immediate Opening forMen and Women. $11,000to will ,have new offices for THE attention to a matter of immedi- be a spectacular event. COMMENTATOR, the acy. To succeed res1mnsibly in These events have paved the 60,000. · Conskuction, Manufacturing, Secretarial Yeshiva College Student Coun­ the latter goal, the Council has · path to what I am sure will be cil, and WYUR. There will also chartered scores of clubs, socie- considered an outstanding year be art studios and a lounge area ties, and organizations that for all students and YCSC. ork, Nurses,Engineering, · Sales. Hundreds. of Jobs· on this floor. A student lounge will be located on the fourth isted. CALL NOW! 206-736-7000,Ext. ,n A floor, but will not be completed IPCIMINI YCIC IPINIIIH EVENTS by next year. The Dramatics Society is very a1P1,1J, ICIIIIP !711 excited about the eventual open­ ,ing of.the Schottenstein Center. flllf Dr. Anthony &ukas, faculty YCSC s,,.,• .,, Class c,•• ,, advisor to the Society stated, "The play which will be P.er­ CRUI�E�HIP� form ed for the Grand Opening is UIPlilY, N1111•1P 3P. called "The Boys Next Door." It Now . Hiring Men and Women. Summer & Career is a play which is going to be T IPI� 111il LICIIPI IIPill Clltillll exceptional, particularly Opportunities(Will Train). Excelleiif Pay Plus World because it is going to be in the new building." Beukas' only ravel. Hawaii, Bahamas, Carribbean, Etc, CALL reservation about tlie new build­ . w, ...... ,, N1ve1leP 11, r ing concerns the size of the storage rooms. Nevertheless, he, f IClltyII PIII 1111111111 NOW! 206-736-7000,Ext. 611C aswell as the rest of the Dramat­ ics Society and the entire Yeshiva College student body, is eagerly awaiting the building's UIPl-11, N1111•1r 111• completion. IPillll11c•t CIPIIIIY

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He was a department will sponsor to · revival and maintenance of "Realidad" (Reality), sponsored University are predominantly great influence... all my memo­ commemorate the 500th anni­ Sephardic Heritage through the by the Sephardic Community Ashkenazi and the school is ries of Dr. Gaon are just versary of the Spanish expul­ education of students, the devel­ Activities Program, which edu­ usually regarded as an Ashke­ wonderful." sion. The primary purpose of opment and strengthening of the cates Latin American Jewry by nazi institution, Y.U. began With the invaluable assistance these events, which will take community, and ensuring public teaching the essence of Jewish providing for its Sephardic of Dr. Gaon, Dr. Dobrinsky, the place a total of seven times in knowledge of the Sephardic practice and thought. students in I 964 when it estab­ late Ivan Solomon, and the late differentlocations, is to present population." He feels that his Nevertheless, the majority of lished the Sephardic Studies Dr. Belkin, the Sephardic Stu­ the history and music of Sephar­ goals are being accomplished, as the Sephardim involved with the Department and the Sephardic dies Department hasexpanded, dim and to explore their Spanish evidenced by the increasing department are Americans. For Studies major. Y.U. has been providing some 18 courses in roots. Featuring a scholarly number of Sephardic students the most part, they are from faced' with the challenge to IBC, MYP, SCW, and the Belz lecture followed by a musical attending Yeshiva University. Brooklyn or have become natu- integrate the Sephardim while presentation, the program will Presently 110 Iranian, Syrian, helping them to maintain their premiere at Stern College for Morrocan, and Balkan Jews unique cultural heritage. Rabbi Women on December I Ith. The attend Yeshiva College, while Blau, mashgiach ruchani at "There j' a lot remainder of its itinerary another 42 Sephardic women "It is very hard Yeshiva, explains that "there's a includes stops in Highland Park, attend Stern College for lot to be learned from the to be learned N.J., Canarsie, Cedarhurst, the Women. Rabbi Serels attributes to integrate the . Seph�rdic world; why should it Sephardic Home for the Aged­ theirinterest in Yeshiva Univer­ be right to Ashkenazify (sic) fr om the an in Brooklyn-and the Spanish sity to the Sephardic Commu­ Iranians with them?" The Sephardic Studies and Portuguese Synagogue in nity Activities Program. Department was thereby created Sephardic Manhattan's Upper West Side. "Although," he points out, the rest of the to preserve and !.olidify Sephar­ The series of presentations "there is never just one factor dic culture and identity. Rabbi world. " concludes on December 17 at La alone that brings a student to Sephardim. '' Mitchell Serels and Dr. Haham Casa de Espana at 314 East 39th Yeshiva llniversit y." Rabbi Solomon Gaon currently direct Street. Serels noted proudly that the ralized citizens after fleeingIran. the program. Among the many dignitaries School of Music. These courses Sephardic Studies Department There are others from communi­ Rabbi Serels attended who will be on hand at the final of Yeshiva University is one of include hazzanut, history, phi­ ties like Seattle, Washington, Yeshiva University as an under­ losophy, safrut, and other sub­ event are the President of the the few institutions to receive where Sephardim of Turkish grad·uate and as a semicha Jewish Community of Spain, jects. Currently, a special course funds from Sephardim all over descent have settled. This diver­ student. He was the second in Yemenite hazzanut is in Samuel Toledano, Ambassador the world. sity, according to Rabbi Blau to the United Nations Francisco Sephardi to earn both his B.A. preparation. The Sephardic The Sephardic Studies has actually become a hindrance ('68) and Semicha ('71 ). Rabbi Studies major, offered through Department's programs have . Vaillar, and His Excellency, the in some areas. "It is very hard to Angel, currently rabbi of the IBC, covers all of these courses Ambassador to Washington, also helped to raise Sephardic integrate the Iranians with the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Julien Santa-Maria. The latter's in addition to, or in some cases consciousness and curtail anti­ rest of the Sephardim (who were in New York, wasthe firstto do as a substitute for, the regular interests are primarily focused Sephardic prejudice. "There isn't born in America)." Rabbi Serels so (Semicha '70). Rabbis Serels . as much anti-Sephardic feeling coursework requirements of that on strengthening the bonds illustrated a different problem and Angel were the firststudents school. According to Rabbi between Spain and the Sephar.._ as there used to be among related to the topic. He feels involved with the Sephardic Serels, course offerings have die Diaspora. Ambassador faculty or students at YU I much more needs to be done to Studies Department. Rabbi increased over the years but only Miguel Aldasoro, the Consul­ remember when someone would attract more than merely a third Angel remembers those years five · students have earned a General of Spain in New York say we as Sephardim haven't of the Sephardic community in fondly. "We would study Shut: degree in Sephardic Studies. City, aswell as other dignitaries accomplished anything since Brooklyn to Yeshiva. "Their chan Aruch with Dr. Gaon. in This June, two more students and representatives from the Maimonides. But now that we're community is very mercantile. addition to taking regular . ·wm complete the degree. · National Tourist Office of succeeding here in numbers, . The image of the University has courses and participating i�. a . The department is also Spain, will also attend . those feelings are beginning to Sephardi minyan every now and to be transformed for YU to responsible for• a variety of According to Rabbi Serels, dissipate as .we overcome reach those who maintain a high then." Rabbi Angel credited Dr. cultural events. This year's the main objective of the hardships." sch o o 1-straigh t-to-b usin ess Gaon for influencing his career "Semana Sepharad" (Sephardic Sephardic Studies Department The potential Sephardi stu­ mentality." choice. "Dr. Gaon was a great Week) is just a preview of the and the Sephardic Community dents of the world are recipients Continued on PageU. SSSB SPEAKER FORUMS TONIGHT! "Careers in Finance, Banking and Real Estate" 8 PM Belfer 411 WHITIF10U DON'TGET November 2 INTOINEGUD SCHOOL OF "Careers in Marketing and YOURCHOICE? Sure, thereare other Advertising" schools. Butwhy settle? 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� Dukakis.· Time fora Change DUKAKIS BUSH

by Behnam Dayanim wholehearted agreement, Michael Dukakis. A sitting Ending nuclear Walk down any New York attempted to veto its renewal. Democratic President can much weapons testing YES NO City street at any time of the day On the economic scene Duka­ more effectively repel any or night and count the homeless k is has offered a series of attempts to usurp his position Increased funding for than can a demoralized and who begfor money or sleep on detailed proposals to once again the Strategic Defense sidewalks or in subway stations. make college tuition affordable divided opposition party. NO YES That's one reason to vote for [ED: Please see c1ccompanying Irrespective of the Jackson Initiative (Star Wars) Mike Dukakis. Take a look at article], provide health insur­ issue, Governor Dukakis has your next college tuition bill and ance for those who currently presented the most favorable MX Missile wonder how you're ever going to have none, and increase the foreign policy agenda toward NO YES pay for it. That's another reason availability of housing for the the State of Israel of any major to vote for Mike Dukakis. Stroll homeless. The need for such party candidate in this decade. Production of down the winding streets of programs is clear. Ask any He has stated his firmintention chemical weapons. NO YES Jerusalem's Old City to the college senior who has been here to recognize the city of Jerusa­ Kotel and think about how nice for four years how many people lem as thdsraeli capital, effec­ Tougher economic he remembers seeing begging on it would be if Israel's staunchest ti vely precluding any future sanctions against YES NO ally joined tiny Costa Rica in the street when he was a fresh­ United States pressure to cede recognizing the .. City of Gold" man. An honest answer will the eastern half as part of a peace South Africa as the official capital. That's a prove shocking. Universal agreement with the Arabs. Fur­ third reason to vote for Mike health insurance simply requires thermore, he has displayed more Military aid to the Dukakis. Finally, think about businesses of a certain size to respect for Israeli sovereignty Nicaraguan contras how badly the environment has provide it for their employees. than have the Republicans NO · YES been neglected and even deliber­ This will cost some money in the through his announced policy of ately abused during the last eight formof price increases to consu­ allowing the parties in the region years, what kind of world you mers, yet the need exists and to work out their own agreement want to bequeath future genera­ Bush's alternative would merely with no coercion from the U.S. tions, and even in what kind of add the currently uninsured to as to specific concessions. The world you would like to live just the government chuck wagon only direct American role lies in a few years down the road. with no indication where the will be security guarantees for the That's yet another reason to vote necessary millions found. Jewish State and a willingness to for Governor Michael S. Duka­ Dukakis' positions on the assist in the arrangement of any kis on November8. immense budget andtrade defic­ CANDIDATES talks should they be desired. Michael Dukakis offers the its need little explanation. He intelligent, concerned voter, does not echo past Republican His top Middle East policy whether liberalor moderate, an promises to eliminate the budget advisors include such depend­ alternative to another fouryears deficit in four years, but rather able friends of Israel as Repre­ of environmental and economic to substantially reduce it, a sentative Mel Levine of Califor­ neglect, legislated morality, and serious offer from a thoughtful nia; neither Jackson nor any of � patchwork, directionless foreign man. The trade deficit and his staff has been at all involved DUKAKIS BUSH policy. In addition, he offers to increasing foreign ownership in with foreign policy formulation the college student hope that the U.S. are notmatters of little in this area, and top. Dukakis Reduce annual Reduce annual to or dioxide dioxide there is relief around the corner concern him his running aides have repeatedly insisted Acid sulfur sulfur and to the Jew reassurance that mate, as "they appear to be to that they will not play a role in Rain emissionsby emissionsby America's traditionally strong their opponents if their state­ the future. Perhaps the noticable 12 niillioritons. millions of relationship with Israel will ments and track record serve as lack of enthusiasm and support tons. intensify and that American a guide. displayed· by Jackson in the Jews need not fear the imposi­ Another little-debated yet campaign thus far should·· be Ban ocean Ban ocean attributed to irritation over tion of an official religious extremely important factor in Clean dumping by dumping by morality. this election is the Supreme neglect by the Dukakis cam­ Water 1991; sup- 1991; Dukakis paign. Even should some late supported Governor has con­ Court. With all three liberal portedrenewal signs -'of affection become . evi­ Reagan veto of sistently recognized the impend­ Justices facing probable retire­ of theClean the Clean Water ment during the next term, a dent, this would· most likely ing dangers to our global. envi­ . Water Act Act. ronment. Unlike his Republican Dukakis Presidency could make result merely from an understan­ dable aversion on the part of opponent, George Bush, he is no the difference between the con­ No, untilnew late convert to the cause, vigor­ tinuation of the precariously Jackson, to being blamed for a Yes, with high possible election defeat. New safety measures · safety standards. ously protesting "I am an out­ balanced middle-of-the-road Nuclear aredevised. doorsman ! " to the national Court or an activist, extreme The presence within the Bush television cameras. Governor conservative bench. The "Chris­ campaign of both prominent Reactors Dukakis has been the first tian Nat ion" concept of intrusive Nazi collaborator.5 and suppor­ No, except Yes, except in Massachusetts Governor to government .frequently praised ters of the P. L. 0. should disturb where environ­ sensitive-'� areas. attempt to rid Boston Harbor of by President Reagan and Jews more than the easily iden­ Offshore mental quality its centuries-old pollution. How­ endorsed by many of Bush's tifiableand thereby preventable will not be ever, his program budget was most vocal supporters could Oil Drilling theoretical danger posed. by compromised. slashed by the administration come one step closer to reality Jackson. Seven Eastern Euro­ whose Vice President now with the nomination of one pean fascistshad attached them­ piously proclaims his love for more Robert Bork. History selves to the Bush campaign, Produced by: the environment. Dukakis teaches that it is never in the best only resigning when accounts of opposes all offshore oil drilling, interests of any minority to their past affiliations became a practice that disrupts the entire allow a mindset where the public. Bush noticeably ref used The NationalStudent Campaig n for VoterRegistration coastal ecology wherever con­ religious values of the majority to denounce them or their past ducted and that has been advo­ are imposed upon the populace activities. (Sounds vaguely like Many other reasons to vote we can afford and not simply cated by both Reagan and Bush by the government. Jackson and Farrakhan, doesn't forMichael Dukakis include his approve every new gadget con­ most recently in California. The issue of most concern to it?) Furthermore, the chairman understanding of the modern, jured up by the Pentagon. As Dukakis also proposes a specific YU students and alumni proba­ of Bush's New Hampshire cam­ complex world in which the Dukakis says, "We cannot have­ plan of action to deal with the bly lies in the area of American­ paign and possible Cabinet East-West conflict is not the national security without eco­ festering problem of acid rain Israeli relations and the possible member during a Bush tenure, most important issue confront­ nomic security." When each and has consistently supported influence of Jesse Jackson on a New Hampshire Governor John ing many Third World nations. and every one of us exercises our such environmental protection Dukakis administration. Disre­ Sununu, is an Arab-American He opposes legislation to create responsibility to vote on N ovem­ laws as the Clean Water Act, garding the merits of the topic actively involved in Arab organ­ a ?0-day sub-minimum wage ber 8 for the leader of our nation, renewed just this year. Even for the moment, however, it is izations who remains to this day that would effectively reduce we should bear in mind the Bush's running mate, the other­ necessary to point out that the the only Governor to refuse to salaries earned from summer nature of our choice and vote wise abysmal Dan Quayle, sup­ surest way to increase Jesse condemn the infamous United employment. And he under­ with our heads and with our ported this legislation while Jackson's influencein the Dem­ Nations "Zionism is Racism" stands the need to judiciously hearts. VOTE MICHAEL President Reagan, with Bush's ocratic Party is to not vote for resolution. choose those weapons systems DUKAKIS. October25, 1988 The Commentator Page9 NATIONAT A CROSSROADS Peace and Pro_§perity

� DUKAKIS I BUSH with GOP DeficitReduction Improve Flexible · by Dov J. Pinchot left open for improvement. Once than his predecessor has. Com­ Plan (firstpriority) tax enforce­ freezeon ment. spending. Too many of us have lost sight · the "biggies" are out of the way, bine this with the already strong of the wonderous goal for which these being peace and prosper­ Republican policies which have this country was founded: free­ ity, we all focus on other issues. led us into peace and prosperity dom. By freedom, I not only I will not belittlethe importance and you should have an unbeat­ NO mean freedom from foreign of education, assistance to the able combination. Increased LAST intrusion; but freedom to do poor, child care, or the enviro­ Foreign policy cannot be income taxes ..what I please, provided it does ment. But we must not overlook overlooked in a day and age . RESORT not damage the nation. Free­ the fruits of the Reagan agenda: where strategic weapons are dom ofopportunity was and still family income is up 9.1% since spreading across the globe Minimum wage NO is the most unique aspect of the 1981; . unemployment is at its almost as quickly as commu­ increasedto $4.55/hr. YES United States of America. With lowest level in fourteen years; nism does. In this area, the this freedom of opportunity productivity is rising; industrial Republicans hold all the cards. comes the freedom to grow, to output is increasing. Ronald .Reagan held tough on SDI and expand. Thus, progress becomes Reagan turned the country suddenly the Russians were at the result of natural ambition. around, despite the almost daily the table, willing to talk. The CIVIL RIGiHTS Now it may seem trite to say that predictions that his plan would result was the monumental INF the Republican party stands for fail. It has not yet, and this fact treaty. Still, the Russians have DUKAKIS BUSH this freedom of opportunity, both disturbs and baffles the demonstrated no change in the while the Democrats somehow skeptics. Everyone claims that size or intentions of their armed stand against it, but in many taxes must go up; the next forces. Communism is trying Equal Rights NO respects, such is the case. President will have to raise desperately to spread through­ Amendment YES The Republicans want to see taxes. But what do you think out Central America: only a the country return to the way it they said to Ronald Reagan? strong foreign policy will deter used to be - a country run by the Yet, he has remained true to his it. Constitutional NO people, not by the Federal word. Finally, we turn towards amendment to YES government. The Bill of Rights The next President will have Israel. This Republican Plat­ prohibit abortion was written to limit the Federal the opportunity to appoint form is the most pro-Israel one government, to preserve the several important Supreme ever. It recognizes that the energy and ambition of the Court judges. Many see this as foundationof U.S. Middle East states. The Democrats want cause for alarm, should the policy should be the moral and Washington to run too many Republicans stay in office, strategic relationship with Israel; details of the country's life. For unaware that under the domi­ opposes creation of an indepen­ example, the Republicans are nance ofliberal judges, the court dent Palestinian State; calls for AT AGLANC E dedicated to the idea of freedom has backed itself into such a specific steps to institutionalize to education. It is unjust that corner on the · issue of private the strategic partnership with merely becauseyou are white or rights that they would be qard Israel, among which is the Universal Voter YES NO Jewish, a school will not accept pressed to even · outlaw iricest Arrow project: a new anti-missle Registration Act - POSITION you once they have filled their (see Eisenstadt vs. Baird). defense system. quota for white students. The There have beenareas where The party that brought you Republican Platform calls for the Reagan Presidency has peace and prosperity is no\\ the abolition of quotas. fallenshort. But the benifitof an poised to improve the weak and The greatest danger faced by election is that it forces the troubled areas in American life. the Republicans in this election candidates to address those They will not do it by handinE � DUKAKIS BUSH is that the voters will take for areas of weakness. Thus, George money through corrupt bureau­ granted the achievements of the Bush has concentrated on such cratic agencies; they will do it the last eight years and look only to issues as the enviroment, educa­ old fashioned way, by giving the Child Care Federal Taxcredit the shortcomings and the areas tion, drugs, and child care more freedom back to you. assistance forwor king and parents. standards. Candidates Offer Plan Parental Leave Up to I Guaranteed. employer. On College Education by Barry Kaye who have low incomes. The plan strengthening of debt collection Increased federal In the 1988 Presidential cam­ is simple and would entail no procedures; and continued fund­ student loans YES YES paign, college student's are faced new government subsidies. In ing of educational grants in with two candidates who have contrast with existing programs, conjunction with work study Guaranteed basic distinctly different views on the there would be no defaults, programs. NO issue most pertinent to our which now cost the Federal Thus, on Nov. 8, the way in health insurance YES college education - cost. Government about 1.6 billion which our future college bills Governor Dukakis has made dollars a year. will be paid will be decided by Sources: Candidate Position Papers, 1988 Democratic & a proposal, labeled the Student Meanwhile, Vice President the voters. Republican Platforms,The New York Times, and Washington Post Tuition and Repayment System Bush has outlined a four-point (STARS), which would innova­ program to aid students in the tively try to combat rapidly battle against spiraling college escalating college costs, in the costs. Bush believes the key to face of stagnant wages for most affordable higher education is a The Unpopular President middle-income Americans and College Savings Bond program, constrained Federal student aid modeled after a regular U. S. Three presidential elections office as president. . programs. Under STARS, all Savings Bond. However, unlike in the 1800s denied the most In each case, the candidate students would be able to bor­ the U. S. Savings Bonds, the popular man the Presidency. won the most votes in the Elec- row money to help finance their AndrewJac kson received far toral College. _ interest would be tax free unless more votes than John Quincy The Electoral College isn't education; however, instead of diverted away from college Adams in 1824, but Adams . always the final word. The having to make traditional loan tuition. In addition, Bush advo­ wQn the presidency. House of Representatives de- repayments, borrowers would cates: the establishment of Edu­ Rutherford B. Hayes won the_ cided the 1800 election after repay their loans in the form of cation Savings Accounts, mod­ offi�e in 1876, but Samuel J. two candidates tied in the Elec­ added payroll taxes, once they eled after an Individual . Tilden had 250,000more votes. toral College. Thomas Jeffer- enter the work force. Repay-,, Retirement Account: an expan­ In 1888, Benjamin H�rrison son became President; the ments would be set at a fixed sion of income contingent loan j had nearly 100,000few er votes defeated candidate, Aaron Burr percentage of each borrower's programs which adjust pay­ than Grover Cleveland, but the ·was chosen Vice-President. * earnings; thus STARS would ments annually to fitthe income Campaign '88 following year· Harrison took NewsUSA not unfairly burden borrowers a graduate earns after college: a Page 10 The Commentator October25, 1988 Israel's Confusing Political Maze ... by Reuben I. Levine had while in Israel for the even an iota of independence Mrs. Geulah Cohen, one of the withdrawal of Israeli troops Stepping into a cab at the Yomim Tovim, continued in within the present borders of the party leaders, complaining over from Lebanon in 1985 and central bus station in Jerusalem, similar fashion, often sarcastic State of Israel. The policy on Likud's lack of cooperation in claims that his economic actions I ask the driver to transport me but quite serious. The driver how to deal with �he uprising of endorsing most of Tehiya's have forcedthe labor unions to to the corner of Balfour Street finally confronted me with a Arab youths has evolved from proposals. The nevertheless "tighten their belts," thereby and Aza. The diligent cab driver, shocking question as to my shooting live bullets, to beatings, evident teamwork between the braking the previously snowbal­ with the precision of a tankist, solution for the mess. I wonder and now to the less lethal form two parties makes dogs and cats ling rate of inflation. In spite of fights through the barrage of why a cab driver would ask me, of ammunition, plastic bullets. appear veritable comrades. his claimed success, most of the traffic lights, weaves between an ordinary passenger, for a Israeli soldiers no longer serve · The extreme right Kach, Meir Alignment's television ads and Egged busses and double­ political solution. Did he possi- the purpose of border protec- Kahane's organization, is the public appearances tell more of parked cars, and dodges squab­ bly think that I, too, was starting tion, but are instead ironically most aggressive in its Arab Shamir's shortcomings than of bling pedestrians. Finally we a political party? Don't they practicing the multiple forms of approach. Meir· Kahane's idea Peres' accomplishments. In fact, travel south past Gan Sacher, a have enough from which to riot control. of the demographic sohition can it sounds like a Republican park in · which we Americans choose already? Yet who exactly The Likud ticket. also boasts easily be termed the "get rid of campaign. once played football. I sp<;>t on are these many contenders? the presence of a man quickly 'em" policy. He hopes to pay the As faras dealings with the Arabs, Peres favors an intema­ top of a hill the Knesset, the Israeli political choices seem growing in popularity, Binya- Arabs to leave, though using tional conference with P.L.O. Israeli Parliament building. reside on two levels. First, one min Netanyahu. As Israel's · force as a last resort is quite to members present to voice their Turning t-0 my silent driver, I ask must decide whether to vote former Ambassador to the Uni- conceivable and, from the tone in Hebrew, "What's going to be right or left. Once that task has ted Nations, he is known forhis of his public addresses, some- views. In essence, this amounts with our country?" been completed, the Israeli must eloquence in both Hebrew and what enjoyable. In any case, he to recognition of the P.L.O. gaze into his well-tossed salad English and his stern but passive who agrees with this agenda can Economically, the Alignment The driver, in an excited, was hoping to place their money almost prepared fa shion, begins and pick out his favorite vegeta- domestic approach. He is also return to his salad bowl as Kach on their "bucking bronco," the to ramble, "I don't know. There ble. Is this possible? probably the most capable of has been ushered out of the tackling the immense tasks political race. They have been Histadrut, Labor's trade union are two and one-half million Looking to the right of the federation. However, on Octo­ people in Judea and Samaria. facing the country on the inter- ruled an undemocratic, racist Israeli political arena, there are national front. However, he regime with dictatorial tenden- _ ber 11, The New York Times We can't just kill them. We must many parities, such as Likud, . occupies a position too low on cies and have therefore been reported that Bankers Trust had let them live, but I'm tired of Tehiya, and the recently the Likud totem pole of tough politically excommunicated. filed suit against Koor, a com­ doing two months per year of benched Kach. men to become a prominent Rabbi Kahane intends to appeal pany owned by Histadrut and reserve duty. If we give them a As the largest of the right­ figure in directing Likud policy this verdict, but the general one oflsrael's largest fiduciaries. little land now, the next thing wing organizations, the Likud and action in the next term. feeling is that Kach will remain The report stated that Koor they'll want is my living room. I Coalition for the past term has As forLikud's economic goals barred. defaulted on a twenty million can't make enough money to been viewed as the majority and program ... Sounds great, To the left of the political dollarloan to Bankers Trust and pay my bills, and half of what­ party, though recently no one huh? arena await such players as the indignant lender is demand- ever I do make gets eaten by . group has substantively con­ For our next vegetable, we Maarach (Labor Alignment), ing its liquidation. Other firms income tax which goes to trolled national policy. Likud's call on Tehiya. This party's Meimad, and Ratz. may follow Bankers Trust's Knesset members so they can leader, Yitzhak Shamir, still televised advertisements depict The Labor Alignment is the example as Koor owes other vacation in Switzerland. I can't seems to be mentally bearing his much bitterness toward the largest of the left-wing heavy- "foreign banks more than 400 even go to see a movie on Friday M-1 rifle. Shamir refuses to intifada,or Arab uprising. To its weights. The Alignment's leader, million dollars." This situation nights without ultra-Orthodox relinquish an inch of Israeli land members, tolerance of Arabs is Shimon Peres, is a man of poses -negative implications for ridicule. Who do they think they to the "refugee" Arabs, claiming intolerable. Furthermore, the essentially socialist core who the Alignment and may posi­ are?" that their probable affiliation Tehiya position attempts to often dodges the rapidly emerg- tively aid Shamir should he The above complaints, based with the Palestine Liberation elicit anti-Likud sentiment. One ing capitalist gunfire. He played decide to step in and save the upon an actual conversation I Organization justifies denial of of the ads focuses on clips of an instrumental role in the Con�uedon Page 11.

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With the upcoming elections precepts to justify forced expul- with Israelis and generated sinking conglomerate. the economy float somewhere in to the Israeli Parliament only sion of Arabs and the absolute disdain toward Torah and reli­ Meimad, the party of Ycshi­ the shadows of its agenda and two weeks away, a new religious refusal of constructive dialogue. gious Jews. Since Rav Arnita! vat Har Etzion's Rav Yehuda are rarely explained. There even political party is gaining imprcs- He offers an analogy to his abhors such tactics as coercion, Arnita!, asserts the importance exists a party called the P.L.P. sive popularity in its attempt to position: "If a person has to communication and discussion of unity, internal tolerance, and that exclusively represents the procure seats in the Knesset and, amputate a limb to save the rest at all levels of Israeli society on the abolition of the enormous Arab citizenry. The list of all more importantly, to redefine of the body, he'll go first to ten all topics have been established bureaucratic walls that have shades of every classification Israeli politics. doctors. You think and weigh as the mainstays of Meimad's developed over the years. The extends further, but the reader and weigh again. But you have platform. Arabs are not their main con­ by now should be as baffled as Mahane HaMercaz HaDati to consider it." If land can be Rav Arnita! and Meimad's cern. On that subject, Rav oui: hopeless cab driver, so I will (MEIMAD), or the Israeli Cen­ exchanged for true peace, the philosophy of compromise has Arnita! feels that either land or cease any additional trist Religious Camp, was option must remain open. It is attracted criticism that, though autonomy would be a fair trade introductions. founded some six months ago by difficult to say whether and how the party rests on sturdy founda­ if it would allow Israel to return One can see that much of the Rav Yehuda Arnita!, one of the much territory would be given tions and aspires to lofty goals, its sword to its sheath and in turn debate rotates around the Arab roshei yeshiva of Gush Etzion. away should the Arabs ever there are no clear means or plans redirect. the nation's resources demographic situation; how­ He hesitantly entered the politi- agree to sit at a bargaining table, of achieving these ends. toward its mounting internal ever, were it not for the relentless . cal arena due to the necessity of but Rav Arnita! maintains that "Naivete" is how one Lawrence, tidal wave of problems. That is a pressure exerted by such foreign providing an alternative to the this feeling of willingness must New York resident phrased it at new concept, but so is the party. dignitaries as U.S. Secretary of established ·parties. In light of be' verbalized� in order to com- a recent parlor meeting for [ED: Please see accompanying State George Shultz and the the State of Israel's crucial mence on the road to peace. Meimad in that community that article for further information warped pen of the international political and cultural challenges, on Meimad and its riatform.] media, this issue would not Meimad came into existence occupy a place of such enor­ hoping to furnishsorely needed "Rav Arnita/ considers this campaign a religious Finally, far to the left Ratz mous concern. leadership. obligation as he himselfstates- '! have no choice. " cric:�out its "Peace Now"slogan. The issues that should be at Whether that implies the grant­ The dilemmas facing Israel . the center of public debate are ing of autonomy or indepen­ today are numerous and com­ economics and internal social dence to the Arabs with the ease plex. Perhaps the most salient Rav Arnita! basically adheres was attended by Rav Arnita!. affairs. Instead, these parasites and speed with which Crazy and glaring of these problems to the premises of Gush Emu­ Ever the talmudist and not a perpetually infecting Israel's Eddie offers electronic sales or are the widening rift -between nim, namely that the land of politician, the rosh yeshiva political structure stand second Israel is holy and belongs t9 the responds to these charges by the invitation of Arab neighbors and third to some stone throw­ religious and secular Jews, and to Jewish children's bar-mitzvot the political deadlock with the Jewish people, causing his emer­ citing a midrash, a Biblical tale, ing rebels. and weddings remains quite Arabs. In order to begin solving gence as dissenter of that aspect from Parshat Noah. "After the Whatever the end result of the these problems, · Rav Arnita!, of religious Zionism · to be a flood, when Noah exited from unclear and even more elections, one can only hope for frightening. who had previously insisted that shock to many. He conceived the ark, upon seeing the destruc­ two eventualities. First, the he was merely Meimad's spiri­ the "Hesder" yeshiva network. A tion that the world had suffered, The above-mentioned parties substantial victory of one party tual authority, reluctantly Hesder student is the synthesis he cried out to God, 'How can represent only some of the should be sought, allowing agreed to allow his party to of Talmud scholar and soldier, You have let this happen to options facing Israeli voters. prompt and decisive action to declare him its leader. Rav the. pride of worldwide Jewry. Your creations?' 'Noah, you Others · include the established solve the existing dilemmas Arnita!, hailed by many Israelis Gush Etzion, located on the fool,' replied God. 'I warnedyou religious parties such as Shas, facing the state. Should another and non-Israelis alike to be the West Bank, is the largest and of this 120years ago. What"' did the . ultra-Orthodox Sephardic national unity government country's only "voice of hope," most heralded of these military you do to tryto prevent it? party whose supporters include between right and left emerge, as considers this campaign a reli­ yeshivot. Rav Arnita! fought in This story best illustrates the the Sephardic Chief Rabbi was the case in the recent term in gious obligation. As he himself some of the toughest battles of reason why Rav Arnita! left the Ovadia Yosef,'and Aguda, Shas' Parliament, resolutions of these states, "I have no choice." the Israeli War of Independence insulated, intellectual religious Ashkenazi counterpart. Mafdal, staggering issues will be ren- · in 1948 as a seventeen year old life of Gush Etzion to assume the Mizrahi party, cares most dered idle and ineffective by an I_sraeli society is having a immigrant from Nazi-torn Hun­ this most controversial political deeply about education, reten­ iron anchor of endless argument Jewish identity crisis. Unlike the gary. He once said his greatest position. It will not be said of tion of religious prerogatives, and insufficient action. previous generation which, wish during the Holoc_aust was him, "Where was Rav Arnita! and growth in the public sector. Secondly, if one party does although anti-religious, was at to die fighting for the Land of beforethe flood?" Its positions on the intifadaand succeed in regaining the now- least cognizant of Jewish con­ Israel. Some attribute his appar­ cepts, the current generation is ent reversal to the impact of the completely ignorant of Judaism. deaths of Gush students who "Binyamin Netanyahu is This absence of awareness has have died in Israel's past two contributed not only to a lack of wars. Eight were lost in the Y om probably the most capa., com'munication between secular Kippur War and four in ble... but occupies a posi­ and religious Jews, but also to Lebanon. the increasing antagonism tion too low... to become a between the two groups. This However, others are not sur­ schism affects many facets of prised at all · by �av Ami_tal's prominent figure in direct­ Israeli life; Issues such as keep- shift. He has always been a ing Likud policy. " ing movie theatres and disco- pragmatist willing to accept and theques open on Friday night face reality. Sensitivity to chang-' are being vehemently debated. ing circumstances is his and Secular Jews perceive the Tor- Meimad's cn::do: "And if we fragmented throne of the ah's sole concern to be the have to give up land for peace? Knesset, the remaining parties and the entire population should prevention of a sports complex . · The interests of the Jewish from being constructed in Jerus- people come first. Meimad is cooperate with the majority's alem. Such an image of the ready to change its. position; the legislative program. Otherwise, Orthodox Jew must be trans- situation is fluid. Our only political chaos will persist. formed, according to Israel's criterion is the good of the In fewer than two weeks, newest alternative. Rav Amital people of Israel. We have to live Israelis will crowd the polls and urges that not every minor in reality, not fantasy." elect an expected savior with magical answers and solutions. religious debate be deemed Reality, according to Rav lt is truly unfortunate and worthy of going to war over. Arnita!, is bridging the chasm painfully obvious that the one "Haredim-,-the reactionary separating religious and secular Orthodox-throw stones at cars Jews by e·xplicitly pointing out appropriate party, led by the · Son of David upon a white on. Shabbat? So .use another the values of Judaism. "First road." comes the Jewish people, then Former Israeli Ambassador to U.N., Netanyahu . donkey, is not on the ballot this Additionally, the Torah is the Torah, then the Land of year. now for the first time being seen Israel." He. places the supreme by secular Jews as a threat to priority on the unity and saver­ Alpha Epsilon Delta peace and national existence. eignty of the Jewish people and _ This feeling. is manifested state. Land is the -thin;! priority. Pre-Med· Honors Society would like to through the matter of territorial He obviously hopes to never compromise. The left is in favor have to forfeit land, but he of giving away land and the clearly states his willingness to announce the upcoming mock-interviews. extremist right, led by Meir think along those terms. Kahane's Kach party, believes Zionistic and non-Zionistic · For More Information any withdrawal from any land religious parties, by pushing held by Israel to be inconceiv- legislative demands .that are Please Contact Barry Diner able. Rav Arnita! claims that perceived as coercive and intru­ extremists are distorting Biblical sive, have exacerbated tensions Morg 319 Tel # 740-4967 Page ll The Commentator October 25, 1988 Sephardic Studies When asked to identify any ing to Rabbi Serels "last year an flexibility. JSS is a block pro­ is also working on publishing his Continued fromPage 7 problems that the department attempt was made to add a gram mandating enrollment in dissertation on the Jews of Sephardic counterpart to JSS certain courses every semester, Tangiers. Recently, in a joint However, for those who have isfacing, Rabbi Serels singled out the lack of a Sephardic Rosh dinim classes, but nothing came though during the senior year venture, Haham Gaon and chosen to interrupt their careers out of that." the students may choose elec­ Rabbi Serels published "Sephar­ for Yeshiva study, a comfortable Yeshiva (although Haham Gaon is temporarily the Rosh Yeshiva, When confronted with this tives, if there are no outstanding dim and the Holocaust." The atmosphere exists in the Sephar­ requirements. Rabbi Yudin book is a collection of informa­ dic Club. The club began around hopes that eventually, "depend­ tion from the lecture series of the 1965 as a picture session. But ing upon the numbers," a senior same name as well as from other when Rabbi Serels attended, it elective specifically for Sephar­ sources. The book is available in �lossomed into "the organiza­ . dim will be scheduled. Rabbi soft cover from the Sephardic t10n of the Sephardim on cam­ Yudin added, discouragingly, Community Program, 4th pus." Rabbi Serels adds that "It that students seemed ambivalent Floor, Furst Hall. conducts its own minyan, Shab­ about the idea of creating batonim, and special events; but "Sephardic" courses. being Sephardi is not the only Conversely, "IBC has been thing they do. They're account­ the most helpful in promoting "Rabbi Yu din ing majors, pre-health majors, et the program, both in concept cetera. They're a good group of and in scheduling, as well as in added... Thatst udents guys, who help one another to dedication. Rabbi Serels asserts, ensure minyan attendance and "It began in IBC, and since seemed ambivalent they help tutor each other in Rabbi Rabinowitz's appoint­ about the idea" English. The group is rather ment as Dean, it has continued cohesive for its size." Rabbi Blau to flourish." also mentioned that the integra­ Rabbi Rabinowitz responds, tion of the Sephardim extends "My warmest wish is that the beyond the Sephardic Depart­ he does not teach · a gemara issue, Rabbi Yudin of JSS Rabbi Serels concluded by offered a fair explanation for the bright Sephardim will go back . ment. He attributed the stu­ shiur) and lack of cooperation in and teach in Sephardic Commu­ reiterating his hopes that courses dents' progress to Rabbi Serels, scheduling Sephardic courses in lack of courses geared towards will soon develop, especially in Sephardim. He explained that nities. It's the Sephardic student asserting that " a lot of progress JSS. who can really relate because of JSS, and that more Ashkenazim has been made, and a lot ofit has The students have made the nature of the program will become involved in the simply does not allow forsuch his community background, to do with Rabbi Serels because requests for a Sephardic Rosh whereas an Ashkenazic student courses. Rabbi Serels is very he fights for the Sephardic Yeshiva and a specifically has to prove himself. Most happy to note that at Yeshiva students." Sephardic Talmud shiur. students have other professional University, Sephardim consti­ According to Rabbi Serels, Rabbi Serels boasts of such "Thela ck of interests-I don't deny them that tute no less than 12% of the plans are under way to meet the · Sephardic graduates of the right. I only hope we can reach student body. "It is very large, students' requests. Rabbi Serels a Sephardic Rosh program as Rabbi Kassoria more bright students and entice considering that overall we are asserts that "the largest segment (RIETS '83) of Greater Wash­ Yeshiva... (who theni to pursue such careers." but 3% of.American Jewry." He ington; Rabbi Benzaquen of of Sephardim here at Yeshiva Echoing Rabbi Rabinowitz, added jokingly, "We must be Kahal Y osef Congregation, Los University attend JSS. Yet JSS. ..: teaches) a gemara Rabbi Blau.added, "We haven't doing something right, or per Angeles; Rabbi Yaakov Shama­ is the only Jewish Studies Divi­ found the avenue of finding · haps we're just lucky." ria (YC '75, RIETS '83) of sion lacking courses geared to shiur and lack of Leeds, England; and Rabbi meet the needs of Sephardim. enough Sephardic fellows who Rabbi Blau mentioned the cooperation in sche­ can be dorm counselors or Angel (YC '67, RIETS '70). "Sephardic students are in terrible disasters Israel experien­ Rabbi Serels serves the Scars­ JSS either because their Hebrew duling Sephardic teachers, for example, · in an ces integrating the Sephardiril dale Sephardic community. studies were interrupted by informalsense. We need to work (both religious and non­ Interestingly enough, Rabbi revolution or they simply come courses in lS.S" are on this area.''. religious). While YU isn't able to Blau points out that "the from weaker day school pro­ problems.facing the Rabbi Dobrinsky (who came Sephardim haven't produced grams." Both Rabbi Serels and to be known as Haham Bueno on account of his name, which in . enough rabbanim to service Haham Gaon have offered their department. their communities yet, although time to teach courses in JSS, but Slavic means • "good') is not there has been improvement." no one has responded. Accord- Sephardi, but he has always "Most students have encouraged the program . since he was appointed as its director other professional in 1964 and as University Vice­ COLLEGIATE President in 1973. "He gave a interests. I don't deny · tremendous amount-and set the BOOKSTORES wheels in motion," according to them that right. " Rabbi Serels .. The Haham and ASSOCIATES Rabbi Serels came here perman­ ently mostly because of Rabbi Welcomes you to: Dobrinsky's help. Rabbi Angel · echoes these sentiments. "Dr. Your New solv

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"You must have a truth, they'd be coming for help But I questioned all the triplets; quicker than you can say Agatha genstern, Yeshiva University' top notch team of guards over every time they misplaced their none of them seemed to be. the Christie. See, it seems there was mean anything to you?" there to let an entire floor slip teddy bears." type of kid you'd catch sneaking this argument. It was a brief but I put down my grapefruit juice under their noses." "So what do you want me to out of the dorm with a floor bitter dispute on whose picture and nodded. The second floorof Burnstein got defensive. "I do?" under his shirt. appears on the five dollar bill. the Marg dorm is where all the have no doubt that my men will "All we want is for you to By the end of the week, the Hank claimed that there was no student hotshots live: Newspa­ locate the missing floor and snoop around a little and make guards were successful and their doubt that the man was Abra­ per editors, student council apprehend the bandits." yourself known. Then, when we deductions were baffling."Qu ite ham Lincoln. Walter said that it presidents, hall monitors. Burn­ "If you're so confident in your solve the case, you'll get aHthe simple really, detective," said was a portrait of Irving stein produced a crumpled piece boys, why are you hiring me?" credit and our reputation will be Burnstein, "In factwe got most McWirther, a famous Lincoln of paper and handed it to me. It "For our image, detective. · saved." of our clues from the ransom impersonator. Walter's obsti­ read: For our image. Let me explain. , I spent the next week at YU, note. Two facts pointed to the nacy enraged Hank, who pulled "To Whom It MayConcern: Up at YU we've got Burns : doing detective stuff: taking Southern Hemisphere: kiwis out the silverware drawer and The 2nd floorof Marg has been security guards posted at every · fingerprints, questioning wit­ and Hawaii. So. the kidnappers came at ·Walter with a large kidnapped. At gunpoint. If you building. They sit at little desks nesses, wearing a trenchcoat. were two guys from Australia. serving spoon. But Walter · ever want to see the 2nd floor and gaze into space, their ' Amazingly, Burnstein was right And it wasn't three to a room grabbed a double-edgedcarving again, have one million kiwi walkie-talkies jabbering noisily about the guards. They they were protesting, but the knife and stabbed Hank nine fruits at the basketball court 24 hours a day. Everybody appeared to be a bunch of term 'tripling up.' Apparently, times in the ankle. Finally his next week. Don't try any funny laughs at my men and thinks incompetent simpletons, but · south of the equator they say Ph.D. in Cutlery Identification stuff or we'll drop the 2nd floor that they do absolutely nothing. .· when we met at midnight in the 'tripling down."' had proven its worth." down the elevator shaft. We've But in realitY., they are a crack , biology lab to discuss our pro­ I collected my paycheck from Myrna stared at me in admi­ killed before and we won't team o(security marvels! Their gress, they talked like satellite Burnstein's office and took one ration and amazement. "Gee, hesitate to kill again. behavior is just a performance to information systems. last stroll across the campus. I boss," she said, "how do you do Signed, hide their fantastic guarding "I'vechecked out Daniels and waved at the guard in the booth it?" People Against Tripling Up capabilities. All of them have Lerner. Although they do have between the dorms. He ignored "Pure genius, sweetheart." P.S. A couple of tickets to worked for the FBI, RCMP, or brothers with plaid shirts, the me. I saluted the guard at the Myrna handed me a tall glass Hawaii would be nice, too." UJA. They've got detecting teeth marks I lifted from their library. He feigned sleep. I of grapefruit juice · and said, I put down the ransom note skills you've probably never toothbrushes don't match the watched kids run out of Rubin "Don't rest on your laurels too and squinted at Burnstein. heard of: intelligence, counter- singing voices we recorded in the without even acknowledging long; your next client, a Mr. "That's the most ridiculous thing counter-intelligence, counter-in- shower." one of the world's greatest law Burnstein, is here." I ever heard. How does one steal telligence-counter, intelligence-- , · "We all agreed that the cul­ enforcers. If they only knew. If Burnstein was a short, con- a floorof a building?" intelligence-counter-counter, prits had to be among the they only knew. Ho w closely have youfo llowed the The COMMENTATOR "On-Site Survey" campaign? . Ifyes or unsure, do you Very closely 32% Do youpl an to vote in the support Bush/ Quayle or Somewhat closely 52% Presidential election? Dukakis / Bentsen? N.ote very closely 16% Not at all Yes 73% Bush/ Quayle 70% No 19% Dukakis / Bentsen 8% Wh ich of the fo llowing is your Unsure 7% Undecided · 14% primary sourcefo r information: on Other ------7% the campaign and the candidates' ------�--. positions on the issu_es? What e�actly isthis latest addition t(!th_e Y. U. campus? T.V. Submityour res ponses - The Commentator willprmt the best replies. 33% Radio 5% Daily paper 54% Magazine 3% Other 5% Ifa daily paper, which one? New York Times 81% Wall Street Journal 3% New York Newsday New York Post 6% New York Daily News 3% USA Today 6% TOTAL RESPONSE: 63 (Percentages have been rounded) This survey is a random sampling of YC students on campus conducted by JeffFleisher. It is not. intended as a scientific survey, but merely . � a candid indication of the feelings and op1mons of the student body. Conducted every issue, each respondent's name is recorded solely to prevent duplication of results. October25, 1988 The Commentator Page 15

NEW ASSISTANT-cont. fromPage 16. They have made great improve­ ments," he said. The coach's ,,1 dont want intensity is matched only by hjs caring. He arrived over an hour a lot of hype. early one day to practice with Yudi Teichman on three-point I just want drills. He also seems determined to transform Tzvi Himber and something I Michael Oz, who previously have succeeded in basketball cancount on .,, primarily by virtue of their height, into solid ballplayers who can compete on the Divi­ sion III level. Both of these players participated in "Big Man Drills," which included jumping and repeatedly striking the backboard with a six pound Some long distance medicine ball. Although both companies promise you were thoroughly exhausted by the moon, but what vou the time official practice had reallywant is dependable, started, perhaps this extra prac­ high-quality service. That's tice and conditioning may be just what you'll get when pivotal in a Macs' victory some­ you choose AT&T Long time this year. Distance Service,at a cost The coach is realistic about that's a lot less than vou the team this year. He realizes think. Yo u can expectlow that much height has been lost long distance rates, 24-hour from last year's team, but he operatorassista nce, clear feels that this year we may see connectionsand immediate more of a pressure defense to credit forwrong num bers. And the assurance that create turnovers. Perhaps a virtually all of your calls will better conditioned team may go throughthe firsttime. even resort to a full court press That's the genius of the at times. If the team can deny the . AT&T Worldwide Intelligent ball inside, then height is not as Network. great a factor as it might be When it's time to otherwise. As far as offensive choose, forgetthe gimmicks chores, the coach savs that our and make the intelligent two big men may be· able to set choice-AT&t some pretty good screens to give If youtllike to know Teichman the open shots we all more aboutour productsor know he can hit. Coach Podias services, like International predicts sixteen wins, but they Callingand theAT&T Card, may come in more dramatic call us at 1 800 222-0300. fashion than many of last year's victories. Perhaps a split with Western Connecticut and a buzzer shot against N.Y.U. will result in two of our wins. The Macs of '88-'89 are shaping up to be a different AT&T ballclub than one we have The right choice. previously seen at YU. Ayal Hod might not take the ball inside as often. Perhaps he'll even develop an outside shot. Nothing should surprise us this year. So when the team comes out into the first full court press and Ayal hits a three-pointer, just look at the bench at the man · IRISH SEEKING TITLE- Cont. from rage 16. lass and Kenny Yaeger, along tough to beat. next to Coach Halpert. He'll be But one can never count out with the goal tending of Alan There are three additional the one wearing the smile. last year's runners-up, the Wild­ Laifer, makes Seneca a force expansion teams called the SAINTS 6 BRUISERS 2· cats, led by Mike Schreiber and with which to be reckoned. But Freshmen, led by Harris Pearl­ Cont. from Page 16. Yechiel Gordon. With league the heart of the Honesdale man, the Kings, who are cap­ M.V.1>. David Schlussel in net, bunch is their unusual depth. tained by Michael Cohen and team many · had expected. The the race for the cup will be a With a year of experience Jan Wimpfheimer, and the team's hustle paid off immedi­ heated one. Propelled by Moshe under their' belts, the next two Sabres, directed by Mitch ately, and, in a matter of min­ Solutions to Blech and·Robert Levinson, the teams may be battling for the Nathanson and A.A. Witty. Due utes, the Bruisers found them­ Last Issue s Puzzle Wildcats are definite fourth playoffspot. The Saints, to the overwhelming number of selves facing a four-goaldeficit. contenders. captained by -Gary Ganchrow, incoming freshmen on these Michael Bramson began the Although it has yet to be seen return with some of last year's teams, an accurate prediction of scoring barrage with a quick if Team Seneca, commanded by regulars.. Led by Dov Elefant the final results is not possible. goal early in the period. Bram­ Stuart Nussbaum, Jeremy and Moshe Adler, the Bruisers Whether the Irish eventually will son's scoring play preceded Garber, and Yitzi Wernick, has are very solid defensively, take the coveted Cup or a dark successive goals by team captain the unity to play well as a team, despite lacking the offensive horse will emerge, it is evident Gary Ganchrow, line mate . this expansion franchise is quite firepower of some of the other that YU is in for its most Michael Littwin, and Neil powerful on paper. The danger­ teams. This defense, along with competitive and exciting season Weinstein. . ous .combination of J.J. Hornb- goalie David Sheer, may be ever. By the time the third period had begun, the game was all but decided. Unfortunately for the es"o OHAVEI SHALOM TSEDAKA FUND Bruisers, the Saints weren't . finished. Relentless forecheck­ DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF RABBI SOLOMON P. WOHLGELERNTEA 1-;,,�r ing resulted in one more Saints FOUNDED IN 1977 FORTHE FIRSTYAH AZEIT INTRODUCED AT Y.U. IN SPRING, 1979 goal by Weinstein, and a defen­ sive blanket held the Bruisers the Congratulations to David Glatt who was YOUR CONTRIBUTION HELPSNEEDY FAMILIESIN ISAAEL AND RERJSENIKS IN RUSSIA rest of the way until Sojcher the first to submit the correct resrnses scored with no time remaining to Larry Hartstein M611. on the clock. 11,; t-;I'·• 11;�•:" 11T·,.,1:,, CONTRIBUTIONS CAN BE MAILED Watch for another puzzle in the m�t CONTRIBUTIONSCAN BE GIVEN TO: RABBI ELIAHU P. AOMINEK For the Saints it was a great i�ue· of THE COMMENTATOR. JUDAH WOHGELEANTER .i:-,.:r:::�, :-.� r:·:;;;� CHAIRMAN start to what should be a very POLLACK LIBRARY, Y.U. All CONTRIBUTIONS All EXPENSESOF FUND 61 1 BEACH 8th STREET successful season. However, the CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVE ARE TAX-DEDUCTABlE ARE PAID BY FAMILY SPONSORS FAA ROCKAWAY, N.Y. 11691 Bruisers seem to be headed for a very long year. October 25, 1988 Page 16 The Commentator

Rod Strickland's H.S. Coach An Op_en Letter To ·

f . Joins MACS Staff The Athletic Director by Jef Lumerman

Over the past few seasons, the Dear Dr. Shevlin: Maccabees have dropped many The varsity basketball team heart-breaking games. The two made its first post-season tour­ losses to N.J.l.T last year, both With the varsity basketball nament appearance ever last of which came down to the last season not yet underway, it year. This took many years, minutes. brought much criti­ would appear to many that there including numerous ones with­ cism. Some blamed the coach. is not much happening on out the benefitof a home court. Others blamed the lack of campus that is sports-related, Immediate success for a varsity conditioning. Still others that is. Yet there is one sport that sport is not expected, nor is it claimed that, although the team remains on the minds of a anticipated. Presently we have a had talent. they lacked "fire" and majority of students: baseball. number of varsity sports teams the desire to win. In hopes of YU needs a varsity baseball that have become respectable ending the criticisms, the Macs program, and measures must be over a number of years of inter­ have named Steve Podias as the taken now. Baseball season does collegiate play. new Assistant Coach, to fill the · not begin until the spring, yet the Further, how can a university void that was left by Jeffrey students alone are incapable of in New York explain the form­ Gurock. who left after last forming an inter-collegiate ing 6f a soccer team over a season. Podias, left, joins Halpertin his firstseason as assistant schedule. Dr. Shevlin, the stu­ baseball team? Soccer has never Coach Podias fits neatly into forMacs. dent body is calling for your caught on in the United States, the ideology of Yeshiva Univer­ assistance in this matter. and baseball is the national All the excuses · have been pastime. sity. "l am happy to be at ball class can attest. to his Yeshiva University because doctors, and businessmen, so heard, yet none are really satis­ To play varsity basketball, long as he is able to help them intensity. A stereotypically easy fying. The student interest is one must possess exceptional academics are stressed over gym class has metamorphosed athletics." he said. In addition to along the road to success. When unquestionably there. I cannot athletic ability, height, and asked how he could be an asset into a menagerie of drills, from believe that fear of embarrass­ agility. To compete as a varsity his role at Yeshiva, he teaches suicide sprints to medicine ball History and Language at Rice to the team, the coach ment is a valid re�on to hold wrestler; one must possess workouts. Many students were High School, while coaching the responded that he would instill back on formingsuch a squad. exceptional strength. To play surprised to learn that home­ Junior Varsity basketball team. in his players intensity, desire, The newly formedgolf team has baseball, one must simply have He also is acting as.the assistant and a never-say-die attitude. He work is an integral part of the played its first match. No one coordination, along with a coach of the Varsity team. added. that a team can be class. Coach· Podias, however, reasonably expects this team to modicum of speed and strength. Coach Podias has coached involved in as many as ten close has already seen results. "While turn heads immediately. Nor is it And, of course, a love for the many players in Rice High games in a season. By _drilling at the beginning of class perhaps expected that this sport will game. At YU, this love is very School, most notably Rod and conditioning, it is possible two students looked as if they develop much fan interest on strong. Strickland, the Knicks' first to win most of them, but, had handled a basketball before, campus. Granted, golf can be a I await your reply. round draft choice this past year. coupled with determination and at the last practice there was a fun and relaxing sport for the Sincerely, However, he would be just as intensity, it is possible to win all good basketball game going on. few who participate, but it is far Mitchell Nathanson happy coaching future lawyers, of them. Anyone in his Basket- continuedon p. 15 from a rousing sport to watch. Sports Editor HockeyIntramurals Begin Track Team Wins First Meet ______With RecordRos ters For the first time in Yeshiva's harriers overcame these obsta­ finisher with a time of 33:41, mile course, finished in 44 by Saul Kaszovitz history, the Cross Country cles and the opposing runners to knocking a minute and a half off minutes. Team swept its competition in a compile their best showing ·ever. his previous best. Veteran Jon To illustrate the improvement As the 1987-88 hockey intra­ five mile race, raising its two The unique point of this race Katzauer finished 50 seconds of the YU team, no one in at mural league came to a close, it match record to 4-3. The Octo­ was that not only did one or two quicker' than his prior best by least the past two years has run became evident that the league ber 23 meet matched YU against team members have successful posting a time of 33:5 l. First under 35 n:iinutes. On this day was faced with a serious° City College, Kean College, outings, but the entire team ran year student Dan Shiller regis­ four runners eclipsed the mark. dilemma. Overly powerful Polytechnic University, and exceptionally well. Newcomer tered an incredible 34:20 consid­ On November 13, the YU teams were snatching champi­ John Jay College. Naphtali Levine set the YU ering it was only his second time harriers face Stevens Tech and onship titles with regularity. The team primarily competes record for the course in a time of in competition. Co-captain A vi Pratt, two strong teams but Since many players from previ­ at Yan Cortlandt Park in the 32 minutes, 32 seconds. This was Berger rounded out the top five certainly iii reach of Yeshiva's ous championship teams, such Bronx. The grueling course Naphtali's firstrace for Yeshiva. with his top time to date, 35:42: upstart runners. Hopefully, this as the Rebels and the Raiders, includes many hills, puddles, He po!)sesses the potential to Primarily a road race specialist, race will mark the start of a have graduated, there is now and other hazards. These condi­ compete against the league's best senior Moshe Adler finished successful season and future for room for a new c.hampion. tions greatly increase the overall including division powerhouse, with a respectable 38:30. Junior YU Cross Country. Commissioners Marc"Fries and difficultyof the five mile course. N. Y. U. co-captain Victor Fish­ Jerry Hawk, who had never run Geoffrey Miller formed this On this day the Yeshiva man was Yeshiva's second place fourmiles let alone a tough five season's teams, hoping to create Saints Defeat parity. Commentator "We put long, hard hours into weighing the talent and deciding Yeshiva College Bruisers who would be best for each 500 West 185th Street The intramural hockey season team," said Fries. "This year we New York, N.Y. 10033 began Wednesday, Oct. 12, for have more. people signed up for two of last year's most disap­ intramurals than in the history poin.ting teams. In a rather of the league. We were forced to uneventful game, the Saints make eight teams instead of six. cruised past the Bruisers, 6 to 2. But we hope t�at we gave each The first period proved to be team an equal number of quality a defensive struggle for both players." sides. 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