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Yeshiva University's First Chanukafest a Success, Fills Max Stern Athletic DECEMBER 28, 2015 Volume LXXXI The Independent Student Newspaper of Yeshiva College, Sy Syms School of Business, and Yeshiva University • www.yucommentator.org Issue 5 Yeshiva University’s First Chanukafest A Success, Fills Max Stern Athletic Center By Noam Feifel The third night of Chanukah saw over 800 of YU and Stern students fill the Max Stern Athletic Center on the Wilf Campus for the first ever Chanukafest. The event took the place of the usual holiday-in- spired Chanukah concert that served as the primary co-ed Chanukah celebration for a number of years at YU, but whose attendance had declined in recent years. ChanukaFest was a novel proposal from the seven student council committees of the Wilf and Beren campuses that orchestrated and executed it. The carnival-themed event comprised various booths set up across the lively, crowded room. En- ergetic students could be seen playing Chanukah- spirited games, snacking on the free food, socializing with old friends, and making new ones amid all the excitement. “I can tell a lot of work went into plan- ning this,” observed sophomore Noah Frankel at the event. “I’d say it’s paying off too. There are so many things to do! This is a great Chanukah party.” The main attraction of the night, though, was the mesmerizing dance moves showcased by street per- forming and former America’s Got Talent duo, Tic and Tac, who performed two different acts at the fest. Both acts drew an animated crowd of students, who flocked towards center-court and huddled around to watch the performers deftly execute their acrobatic stunts. And the overall reaction of the student body to the performers seemed positive. “The event as a whole was really fun. But the Tic and Tac perfor- mance took the night from good to unforgettable,” exclaimed sophomore Joseph Solomont. Senior Ari Marder confessed that he wasn’t having the best time Artist Connie Rose's designs for the new mural in Nagel. Read more on page 14 SEE CHANUKAH, CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Review: Geography of a Horse Dreamer By Etai Shuchatowitz Lin Snider’s direction takes what is already a crazy play and fills the space with in- Producing something meaningful takes luck, hard work and, most of all, inspira- teresting choices. Every time a character starts to speak about their own real dreams tion. Thus the ground is set for YCDS’s interesting and inspiring production of Sam - real hopes that are not the product of gangsters forcing them to dream - they step Shephard’s Geography of a Horse Dreamer. The play opens in a decrepit hotel room away from the light and towards the audience. They become different from the rest of wherein two gangsters, Sandy (Jack Turrell) and Beaujo (David Cutler) sit around the action that’s trying to crush them and take what’s theirs. Ultimately, though, their watching over Cody (Binyamin Bixon) who lies dreams end and they’re forced to rejoin the brutal tied to the bed. We quickly learn that Sandy and hotel room that wants to take everything away. Beaujo are working for some men who have kid- “AS THINGS GO ON AND MORE AND The acting here is all good stuff, but I need to napped Cody believing him to have the powers make special mention of Ben Machlin’s take as to dream up the winning horses in that day’s MORE DREAMERS ARE LEFT TO SUFFER, Fingers, the head of the crime syndicate. As soon race. However, it seems that his, and, by exten- ALL OF THE SEEMING LUNACY AND as he stepped on stage in act two, he owned the sion their, luck has run out as Cody’s dreams no scene. He’s not onstage for too long, but his whole longer produce anything meaningful. What hap- STRANGENESS GEL TOGETHER TO FORM character is a surprising change of pace. Fingers pens next include a man being convinced he’s a is big and loud and everything you thought he dog, a psychotic doctor, a surprising shootout THIS ODD WHOLE THAT CAN ONLY BE wouldn’t be, and Machlin makes it his own. and probably the strangest room service help THOUGHT ABOUT AND APPRECIATED Turrell’s Sandy is cocky and confident even I’ve ever seen (granted, I haven’t seen much - it’s when he shouldn’t be. Although there are mo- not a frequent trope). ONCE ALL IS SAID AND DONE.” ments where one can clearly see Turrell more than The play moves at a brisk pace, coming in at Sandy, his interactions with the rest of the cast under an hour and a half, and kept my attention help elevate the two scenes that make up the show. the whole time. There are moments in act one, which predominantly features three His interactions with Bixon’s Cody are especially nice. Bixon, as written, has to adopt actors walking around a room and talking, where I started to lose interest, but the play an Irish brogue as well as the mannerisms of an animal, and, while much dialogue gets quickly regains itself by changing things up. lost in the accent, his physicality speaks volumes. The play is weird - there’s no getting around that. And by that I don’t mean this Similarly, David Cutler’s Beaujo is best exemplified by the too-big suit he wears interpretation of the play. I mean the play itself. However, as things go on and more throughout the show. His dedication to playing cards by himself and wavering in his and more dreamers are left to suffer, all of the seeming lunacy and strangeness seem voice throughout everything he does give a real sense of how uncomfortable the char- to gel together to form this odd whole that can only be thought about and appreciated once all is said and done. SEE DREAMER, CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 2 Editorial Monday, December 28, 2015 - 16 Tevet, 5776 The DITORIAL YECHIEL SCHWAB E Editor-in-Chief Our Academic Future is in our Hands DANI WEISS Managing Editor By Raymond Cohen latable bits of torah. As well, Halachipedia, a website found- ed by YU students and guided by Roshei Yeshiva, provides There is no doubt that Yeshiva has struggled from a public an easy-to-use resource for practical halachic questions. The relations perspective over the last couple of years. Headlines site currently has 500 pages and over 10,000 footnotes. AVI STRAUSS YADIN TEITZ from 2014 proclaiming Yeshiva’s $150 million annual deficit My intention is not to list every initiative at YU in the Senior News Editor Senior Opinions Editor and half a billion dollar endowment contraction, combined last couple of years (that would be beyond the scope of this DAVID HILLEL FIELD editorial), but rather to demonstrate the fact that success is with Moody’s downgrade of the University's credit rating to RUBINSTEIN Junior Opinions Editor junk status have marred the school’s reputation as a leading alive and well at Yeshiva and that it is up to us, the student Junior News Editor academic institution and have at times called the school’s body, to convert our dreams into reality. As founder of The Commentator’s business section I can survival into question. This past year’s faculty votes of no DORON LEVINE confidence and student petitions have bolstered the notion attest to the feeling of fulfilment that comes with execut- RAYMOND Senior Features Editor that Yeshiva is on the brink of colossal failure. ing a vision. Around two years ago, I felt very strongly that COHEN From a student’s perspective, buying in to the narrative business students needed a platform for expression at YU. Senior Business Editor ETAI of a University defined by its financial woes is all too tempt- I started to do research, met with the deans of the business ADAM KRAMER SHUCHATOWITZ ing. Burdened with the pressures of deciding our futures and school and spoke with some of the student leaders on cam- Junior Business Editor Junior Features Editor forging our own path, students here can easily opt to fold pus to get an idea of how I could go about giving Sy Syms their hand and choose from a plethora of excuses as to why students a voice. Through what was initially a request for they didn’t achieve their personal short-term or long-term advice, I met with some of The Commentator’s board mem- Senior Layout Editor goals. Many students here have indeed fallen into the trap of bers and we mutually agreed to create the business section. TZVI LEVITIN playing victim to the school’s circumstances to compensate Having a business section has enabled students inter- ested in business to simultaneously pursue and write about for their personal failures. Layout Editors Yet a closer look at Yeshiva reveals a portrait not nearly as their passions. Some have written about Israeli business, unpleasant as the headlines paint it out to be. George Eliot others have focused on entrepreneurship, accounting, fi- SHIRA FEEN taught us not to judge a book by its cover and in the words of nance and nonprofit. This year alone, the business section STEVEN KOHANE our Sages, “Do not look at the vessel, rather examine what is has been quoted in Bloomberg Business and received private inside of it.” Inside of YU is a student body with vision, re- accolades from a partner at PwC and the CEO of the UJF’s Staff Writers silience and an entrepreneurial spirit, largely unwilling to be Jewish National Fund -- achievements far beyond what I ARTHUR SCHOEN had imagined.
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