...__ -...... '·•··-- .) t CltommentatorC- d!�< · Official Undergraduate Newspaper of Yeshiva College VOL. XCVIII No. I. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, NE_W YORK CITY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1983 Is�aeli President :Herzog and Main Center Renovation Plan Under Way; Chief Jo risit Yeshiva Gym Groundbreaking Set for this Month By MORDE(::HAI I. TWERSKY By STEVEN FRIED The eagerly awaited arrival of the Max Stern Athletic Center will move one step further toward Nov. 2 - Israeli President Herz�, referred to Yeshiva t n implementation this month, as groundbreaking ceremonies will be held on November 14, at the Chaim Herzog and the Universi y as "a la dmark institu­ tion." University's Danciger Campus in Washington Heights. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Chief Born in Ireland 64 years ago, The center is being made Rabbis will · visit Yeshiva Mr. Henog is the son of the late possible through a one n'lillion University this month, the Isaac Halevy Henog, the dollar gift from Mr. Leonard Commentator has learned ex­ first Ashke11azic of Stem, a Yeshiva University Cen­ clusively. who visited YU in the tury Benefactor. Mr. Stem is the 1940's. His formal education s n t t t . o of he la e Max S em, founder According to Senior Vice Presi- included threeyears as a studenta t of the Stem College for Women t den Dr. Israel Miller, the Israeli the . and a major figure in the President will addressthe Unive11i­ Mr; ffenog's brother, the late University's growt h and ty on Monday morning, November Dr. Yaakov D. Henog, received development. t t 21st a 9:30 in he Lamport an honorary degree from the Dlpltarles In Attendana Auditorium at the Yeshiva's Main Ul\iversity in 1963, when he was According to Mr. Sam Harts­ Center in Washington Heights. Israel's ambassador to Canada, In tein, Di�ctor of Public Relations Dr. Milleralso d isclosedtha t the 1970, he returned to the campus, at the University, the ceremonies Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi,· ffaRav this time as director-general of will be a ttended by the Stem Avraham Shapira and Sephardic Israel's Prime Minister Office, to family, including Mrs. Max Stern. Chief Rabbi, HaRav Mordechai receive the Mordecai Ben David Yeshiva University President Dr. Eliyahu, are scheduled to visit t he . Award. Norman Lamm and Senior Vice Yeshiva on Tuesday morning. Mr. Herzog is also related to President Dr. Israel Miller, are November 8, at the Main Center: former Israeli Foreign Affairs also expected to attend, as well as ;;._:, ..,: :�. Each Chief Rabbi will deliver a Minister Abba Eban. Mr. Eban, Manhattan Borough President An­ Architect's Model or the Max Stem Athletic Center. shiur (class), Dr. Miller said. President Herzog's brother-in-law, drew Stein. The University ad­ equipped rooms for wrestling, will be completed within 15-16 d n fencing, and other sports activities, months from the beginning of Loq-TI• YU Friend receive an ho orary Doctor of ministration and enti,re student Humane letters degree from YU n n t is scheduled to begin t his De<:cm• con struction. President Herzog, elected to body have bee i vi ed. in 1957. ber, according to Dr. Sheldon E. Only Om Phaa office by the .Knesset (Parliament) December·Constnctfcll Datt n t t t Socol, Vice President for Business The building of the Max Stem t t . The visit by. Mr. Hermg will Co struc ion of he cen er, las March 22. has visited he Affairs at t he University. It is Athletic Cc;nterrepresen ts only one University several times while mark the second time in as many wt,ich will include a gymnasium, a t estimated, he said, that t he center (Continued on Page 9, Col. I ) aervins II Israel's permanent years hat an Israeli Head of State running track, a nd specially- · rep.-antative to the United Na­ has visitedYeshiva University. Mr.· tions in the1970'1. Herzog's predecessor, the Hon. . . . Fa cuity to Vote Shooting Still On Curriculum Proposal �;,,,-�'.,{•'l'.-�r.;I'l!��ttt"&���� ·· •.· ·" 1'11!-.'lli:r"'"'"1- l t o r t s s in week, ch of· t division s . A mos ( u . m� � ce. year which included some 19 c:a he ' t� �rst sho�ting 1 c1dent �t dat ns I . � . me etings, has delivered its �:�:;�� �� t;! I �!;r�cu�� Yeshiva Umversity 8 Main report to the faculty regarding committee. The final version of the Center last June 6, the now revisions of curriculum require- report, he said, would then be f:a m o us "Y h.es S 1 '" va mper case to _ . ments, it was announced by presented the faculty "by late still remains unsolved. Dr. Nonnan -Rosenfeld, Dean. November." According to. Sergeant John Not F.nou1h Flexibility Seated From ldt to ri1ht: PrHident Chaim Herzo1, Ashkenad Chief In an interview broadcast live on s "At Yeshiva College," he said, Rabbi Avraham Shaplra, .and Sephardic Ollef Rallbl Mordechal Carroll of the Ye hiva Task Force, WYUR, the Yeshiva University a special investigative unit set up ·Eliyahu. student-run radio station, Dean by the New York City Polioe Rosenfeld said that by the end of n Yitzchak Navon, spoke at the a I April, 1976, Mr. Herzog was , Department, "maximum effort" the fall semester, "a final vote will t Yeshiva last January 10. . awarded an honorary Doc or of is being launched by the 30 be taken and the whole process Human e Letters degree at First Visit Together specially-selected detectives on the will ·be terminated." ceremonies marking tht opening of The visit by the Chief Rabbis, task force. the Benjamin N. Cardozo School who will be arriving in the United Asked if police are working on Several Phases of Law. In his remarks, Mr. (Continuetf on Page 7, Col. JJ -any solid leads, Sgt. Carroll said The process which the Dean that there a� "some significant referred to has involved several Commie Computerizes leads," but refused to comment on phases. Some two weeks ago, the· the substance of the leads. "There curriculum committee presented its is not a stone that hasn't been final report at the last meeting. ltaOperatio• overturned," he said. "The Police Copies of the report were submit• The Commentator, in order ·· Mr. Smilchensky wished to Department is dedicating many of ted to four divisions representing to reduce production costs and thank Dr. Israel Miller, Senior its resourcesto solving the Yeshiva Jewish studies, the Behavioral, nt Social, and Natural Sciences, Dean Norman Rosenfeld to centralii.e newspaper opera- Vice Preside of Yeshiva Univer- Case." . sity, Mrs. Vivian Owgang, Ex- Since the shootings, the Univer- Humanities and Mathematics. Ac­ "the burden of satisfying the t n io S, has purchased a com- ecutive Assistant to the Senior Vi(lC sity has provided ·round-the-clock cording to the Dean, the divisions requirements, together with the 32 puter and has secured a President and Mr. Jay Bl11.cr, security, in addition t o the 24 hour "are expected to review the credits that the majority of confenmce room in the Student Director of Buildings and Grounds . police presence. A 5250,000reward committee's report at the present students now earn in Israel, has s (Continued on Page 6, Col. 4) Union building. for their upport. time and will soon submit their not provided our students with the comments to the curriculum com­ nexibility that they want in According · to Brian Shoken, mittee." The committee, he said, exploring additional areas of Supervising Editor in charge of will then "distill the division's interest." newspaper operations, a TRS-80 recommendations and produce a The Dean said that the micro-computer has been obtained final report which the faculty will curriculum "has prevented stu­ for the purposes ofwordprocessing then consider," he said. (Conti11ued ,,,, Pa,:e JO, Col. J) and typesetting. The software for the computer was written by Mr. . Shoken. He was also instrumental in t he aquisition of The Commen­ �ator newsroom. Inside .. This Issue••. According to Mr. Ben-Zion Smilchensky, Editor-in-Chief of the Commentator. ''These radical Dr. Bevan Returns ...... Page S steps have been taken in order to enhance and •upgrade the overall Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm. President of Ye!ihivaUniversity, delivering Kaplan's Update ...... Page 7 efnciency and quality of the the historic eulogy last week in Lamport Auditorium for Rabbi publication." Jfe also indicated Avraham Aaron Shatzkes and Rabbi Jerucham Gorelick, Some 1,100 Gr�ndma 's Cookies ...... Page 8 that the Commentator "is trying to students, Rosht'i Yeshiva and relati¥es attended the memorial, in solicit funds for ad�itional equip- trihute to two of thl' Yeshiva's greatest Roshei Yeshiva. Full coverage - ment for the n�wsP.ar,e�•s produc• on page 4, tion .purposes." DIECOMMENTATOR W....._y, Noffllhr2, 1983 ------�...,; ..,.. - ..., Gtammintator_____ Tribute to a Leader Coming back to 1ebool is a time of mixed , ...... ; Menachem Begin's tenure as Prime Minister emotions. Thestudent is, at thesame time, both ._...... _.,m_.., ...... _.,.. happy and afraid to· start the new school· year...... ,.., .. ,....='= ...... "' .... of Israel will leave an indelible mark on the .....,f Ill llw...... lf,..._...... ,...... ,, ...... lives of Jews around the world. Although his This year, a third emotion was pre1ent - that · . � of surprise. The oftentimes dreary Yeshiva ...... predecesson may be regardedtrue as leadersof College campus had been spruced up. There the Jewilh state, Menachem Begin, in his · were benches and Rowen outside and carpeting Govemln1 Board capacity as Prime Minister, was different. and a new registrar's office inside. We received BEN-ZIONSMILCHINSKV He was a visionary who dedicated his life to clipboards and new catalogs to help us in l'.ftor+Clllef Jewish · survival. As a Holocaust sur,ivor, course selection. MARK LEFKOVITZ RICHARD FlllEDMAN Menachem Beginwas determined to ensurethat AIIOCiatc· Editor M11111ina. Editor destruction would never again befall upon the · Critics may, of courae, view these improve­ IRA MEISELS DANIEL FINK ments as minor. We think otherwise;the quality ExecutiveEditor Coordiniltlq Editor · Jewish peqple. of a univenity is mea111red by the level of CHAIM NOllDLICHT SHELDON PICIC.HOIZ As a man never ashamed of - his Jewish . student respect for that university. This respect SeniorEditor SeniorEditor heritage, be was always proud to recall the is . immeasurably enhanced by, a nice campus IARRY IENDER IIUAN SHOKEN words of our forefathen. Whether it was his Contributlq Editor SuperviliqEditor recitation of Psalms at the 1ignin1 of the Camp and even more importantly by the feeling that MOIDECHAI TWERSKY DAVID SCHWARCZ an earnest. attempt is· beiq made-t o improve Nm Editor NeWIEditor David peace talks, or his references to Ezekiel things. n.e minor• . improvements have MICHAEL TAIi.AGiN JOSEPll,MUSCHEL at sessions of the Knesset, his words always conveyed- a stronger mesaage to the students Sportl Editor Fat11111 Editor served as a source of pride to his people. It was than more dnmatic moves c:ould have. TIOhnlaalloanl this pride that made the Prime Minister so _., We •�rt this year with i seg1e of gratitude GARY KAUFMAN AARON DOIIINSIC.Y highly regarded by the Yeshiv� University for improvements effected anct: with hope for JAY IARBALA1T It.ONIC.ATZ community and its likes. It reminded us that A■illlnll theto luliaal Edlton Israel is indeed a Jewish state, and its Prime improvements to come. After all, a ftower is Editor-in-Chier YOEL MOSKOWITZ worth a thousand words. BENJY SCHONBERG Op-Ed Minister a leader of our people. IAN LANDOW JOELROSS Perhaps Mr. Begin's character is best Circulation Editor• . Art reflected in his words.li a letter to our SIMMY WEIEll MICHAELODINSKY 4 New Awakening PublicRclatlo111 MA,llC OIEEN President. hewrote: "For the sake of Zion I y In light of the recent shooting incidents at MICHAEL IC.ATZPhotopapb will not hold my peace, and for 's Yeshiva, one can now stroll down Amsterdam DataProoe111111 sake, I will not rest." (Isaiah 62). Avenue · and ·:ace numerous New York City With his resignation, th_, Jewish people·ha ve policemen, Wells Fargo Security Guards and NEWS: Llnoe Lailr, Nac:hum ■..., Howard T. IC.onlf, lceven certainly surrendereda greatleader. We all pray 1-'rillt, Steve Holtman, Phil Lcdellich, Micbal Fei1111, Gcnld new aecurity ve_hicles. It is extremely disturbing : Tannenbaum,Phil Machlin,Daniel Feit, Dawld Goldin,Sultan, Jay and hope that Mr. Begin's untiring efforts on PeterMan:111, Nici Dubllnally, lnaa: Mo■nlda. Sl11111 ErleElllllcb, that the injuries of several Yeshiva students Levy. FEAnJH:Daniel llotentllal.Cllaim Gejcnua. TYPING 1 behalf of his people and countrymen will earn were nece•ry to open the eyes or the HewmT. I... Typina, Maftller,lnT•1 S..Lla...... Dllt111 · him a continuing life of strength and good C.... , Ylhdla•Twnlly, OP -ED: Jay Alllluckr,.Jeffrey lallabon. administration to the security problem at ·the SPOITS: lllllclAdler, RonnieGrou, Erle Hcnclunann, Robin health. Alul meyah �•esrim shanah. Main Center. Indeed, throughout the yean, the Ka&z. Ian Lindow. I.any Lehman, Avrumi Marllowltz, Keith Yeshiva administration has constantly displayed Rhine. Shabli Schreier, SluieSimon, HowieSonnenblicll. a lack· of sensitivity to the need fo r more , -�-· _ security. The inadequate protection provided , Off to a (]reat Start 9r students in the past had led to 1everal -W:LOWERS r . Upon returning to campus this fall, the unfortunate incidents on campus. Because or . the shootings this summer, however, the is, f,\Ct\ . student body found that the Student Council administration finally movedquickly to UP9rade bad -11acte great . strides in both makina • \ • j · · dormitory life ·more comfortal,le ant in aecunty. . . . increasing school spirit through new activities. The recent appointment of Detective Stephen · Saunders as Director of Security and Safety · Decidiq that student gov�rnment has an seems to have been a step in the right direction. obligation· to the students, the 1983-'84 Student He has carefully allocated large portions of his: Council greeted us with a television projection budget to thestrengthening of security and has· , system, a text book exchange, biweekly movies, Cafe' du Morgue, an art sale, a classical music consistantly been sensitive to student sugestion· co.ncert, and a night at Chicago City Limits. and opinion. More importantly, by organizing "C�b and C�rtainly, thepre senceof the New York City •• Society Night" the Council is encouraging PoliCCi Department on . the Main Campus has ._._.__..,,, 111111111111,.:s contributed greatly to- the prevailing sense of tudents - especially freshmen - to take an active securityshared by mostYeshiva students. While ··part in school life outside of the classroom .. the student body thanks the NYPI), Jhey will Yeihiva's location and the long hours not patrol this area forever. It is our hope that students face every day have not stopped the the implementation of a newly bolstered The Editor-in-Chief and the entire governing Student Council from diligently working security force this year is only the firststep in a board wish to extend their gratitude to Brian towards making Y.U. a more pleasant place. full revamping of Yeshiva security and that Shoken for his unlimited and dedicated service Jeff'Katz and his administration deserve thanks in revamping and modernizing the facilities of for making Y.U. a nicerplace today and forthe when the NYPD i1 gone, security will be The Commentator. adjusted appropriately. precedent they are setting for Yeshiva's future. . . :�8tlers T� The Ec(ttor Decline in inconclusive. Having beenactive in heard, but they are more frequent• Senate last semester. The proposal problem. I think most would assisting the Admissions OffiClC ly heard with regardto the Jewish dictates that a student whose consider it extreme and unfair. EnTollment over a period of many years and progams than with respect to the · attendance falls below 66% in at Further, I think most would agree being much involved in the secular program. least S credits is to be plac:1Cd on tl{at it would be the Student To die Editor: Orthodox Jewish community, I Most proposals that have been "attendance probation"; and a Senate's obligation to treat It was Socrates who aid that have found that the chief reasons made have attempted to diminish student on attendance probation proposals such as ,these with the unexamined lif'e is not wo�h for our problems with enrollment or rerriove requirements for whose attendance falls below 66% contempt, for they belittle and living. Similarly, the unexamined are not the requirements for graduation. In particular, among in any course will lose a grade in demean the students' imap and curriculum is not worth having; graduation but ratherthe competi­ the requirements outside Jewish that course. self respect, treat ing them like and it is thus most appropriate tion from City Univenity, where studies, the speech and foreisn There are si:veral problems with children who can't be granted the that Yeshiva's curriculum is onClC tuition is much lower and where language requirements have been this proposal. Firstly, the Student freedom to decide· for themselves qain being scrutinized. This . there are more couraes, .and from under attack. It it theae that are Senate . acted merely on . an how to conduct their own affairs. critique has taken on urgency the Ivy League colleges, where the now the hostaps; and some may unsubstantiated, dubious mood By punishing the student, the because of the decline of the prestige is very sreat and where (Contlnutdon Par, /0 Col. I} circulating theunivenity thatthere Stl,\dent Senate is assuming that enrollment at the College and the Orthodox students arc no longer is indeed an attendance problem. the alleged poor attendance is to increaae in attrition. Who is at lonely because of the relatively The fact is, at the time of the be blamed solely on the student . . fault and what can be done? large influx of such students in tA ttenU1 .Ja nee ' proposal, the Student Senate had But is the student really to blame? To thebe• of my knowledp, no recent years. Other major reasons not compiled a shred of evidence Perhaps the student chooses not to one has made a scientific study as are that for some we are too Pri'Obat,·on'· that confirms this fear. attend classes because the teacher to why students do not come to • religious and for others we are not To the Editor: Secondly, I fail to understand is dull or adds little to what's Yeshiva College. One study was religious enough. The fact that we I am writing this letter in order how the Student Senate feels that stated in the text. If so only a fool made by an undergraduate a few have a double program is too to bring to the attention of the taking hard earned grades from would attend - why waste time yean ago as to why students leave much for some. Our location is student body a deplorable fellvw students is the most listening to that which can be read Yeshiva, but the results were another factor. Complaints are proposal offered by the Student . responsible approach to the alleged at one's leisure! Perhaps the W....._y, Net-u■h 2, l,U THICOMMENTATOR President Lamm OP-ED MeellW-llh Student Leaders By MORDICHAI TWEISIY .. live normally, study, play, and October 27 - PresidentNorman not let it affect their minds." Lamm met with 1tudent leaden ..We won't be.aca11dout or the On Enhancing and editon this afternoon, and nei9bborhood or prevented from u11ed them to "take a · more practicins our faith," he aid. "I f politi� attitude toward the we will," he continued, "thesniper 'Spiritual F,,g;Jlment ' . Univenity ind not bede•ructiYely will have won hi• point." self-c ritical." Often, in lieu or enthusiutic· IT JEFFllEY9ALLA80N enli• some aid to help alleviate In a meetin1 which· 111tcd one NeN fo r CA/ud observance, Jews make an e�en •pacudo · - Jcwilh· CIIIICI. dio1e terrible situations. Literally hour in the Presidential suite, Dr. Speaking or loq-ran1e objco­ enerptic effort ror some contem­ · For the sincere Jewish activist thousanclsand thousandsor Jewish Lamm aid, ..There come.1 a point tive1 of the University and its porary idcali with which to 11ti1ry however, there are allo some childrenare straying from thepath when self-criticism becomes students, President Lamm called their souls. Jews arc at the worthwhile cau1e1 that art in need or to rah without even an inklins or destructive. We must boolt for "a greater feelin1or communal forefront or many human and cbil of volunteen. Many bave chapters their situation. The National morale." responsibility." Dr. Lamm voiasd rights strugles. Some or thee rilht here in Y.U. The jobs may be Confen:nce or Synagogue Youth When asked ibout the Yeshiva . displeasure with the small number causes a.re related to Jews merely las glamorous and more tedious (NCSY) is working at a feverish shootinp,_ Dr. Lamm said he �t of students enteriag the field or becau1e all the participants are · than . the big secular cau1C1• but pace to bring .some Torah and an concerned members of the human th� can be so much more understanding or to as race. In certain cases,however , the rewardin,. Whether you are con­ many·of these children as possible. cause is particularly appealing cerned with human risht1 , civil Numerous Y.U. students are active since it contains the element of a rights, political activism or the in NCSY. Rabbi Matt Tropp and human rishts strugle couched in propa;ation of torah, there a-, Kenny Fogel aretwo student, who an ostensibly Jewish context. groups for you. There· is, unfor­ may be contacted. Universities a.reoften the spawn­ tunately, no shortage or sup­ ing grounds for social change. pressed, starving or ignorant Jews It is patently clear that the effect Many of the greatest social causes in the world . . As a group of vital, these organizations have in terms have their roots in newly dynamic, relatively sophisticated or solving their respective liberalized minds or enlightened and independent young men, problems is only one pan of the collegiates. Unfortunately, a deep Yeshiva College students are in an story. There is .a profound change · seated altruii.tic love for humanity excellent position to extend a in anyone who devotes personal . is not. always the catalyst that hand. time to public or . community last week with Police Com• Jewish . education. "Even if stu­ produces seeken or social change. If Israel is at thetop of your list, endeavon. The difficulties and miuioner Robert McGuire, and dents will be doctors, we will need· There are many possible cau•s for there are groups like the Israel disappointments exist, but the that "there is riothin1 to report/' Rabbis and principals who will man's desireJor social transforma­ Affain Committee, Tasar or any rewards and satisfactions arc The President indicated, however, take care or their children. tion. Sometimes the chanse results one of a number or American earned proportionately. that "there are more police "We have the best Ros/rtl froni a general disapproval of the Zionist Youth Foundation. divi­ . The ability to bind onesctr to resources being used to solve this Yeshiva at Yeshiva Univenity,'' he ..establishment," and on other sions that would welcome your other Jews, to ignore the cynicism case than on any other ca• in the said adamantly, "and the students · occasions it stems from one'sneed mcmbenhip. Meanwhile, Ethio­ and deep rooted external differen- police department." He said tha, should take advantage or them." for self e•eem. pian Jews barely survive govern­ ce, and to find the . common the policearc doing "a masnificent For those who- find it necessary ment brutality ari'd abject poverty. denominatorsthose arc the abilities job," and will continue their Student leaders in attendance to build a seJf image public.!, there Soviet Jews continue to languish necessary to bring spiritual fulfill- investisation until the case is included the President of the are a plethora or chic cail1es just spiritually. ; Stephen Ackerman, a ment · and · ultimately the solved. He said that the police Yeshiva College Student Council, waiting to be embraced: Some are Yeshiva sophomore, js seeking to redemption.· · officersat thecampus have already Editors or Commentator, been provided with winter sear. Ham,wi.wr, and Mamild: the Commenting on "student life" Station Manager of WYUR, and after the shooting, Dr. Lamm student leaders representin1 each .l -J ,., ·. ·· , asked the students to "exerci1e or the college's three Judaic Capabl- �.:wJ f ;nn . A·.... caution,'' but i11si�d that they Studies djvisions . YT . ·•· -·· •· • .. :o,t . ., . ·r ·•··. . .tUe e e o .,_�15 �YQl)le. .,� . :- •. .

· 'Ouri�g this de�de of the By JAY S. AUSLANDER is the computer's reign. Crowds Stem Scholars Hear computer, the dichotomy between further·· evidence or the advance­ can scream jtimp to a potential feeling and thinking has ·reached ment or humankind - our logical, suicide victim and stoat or scream Wiesel At 'Y' such astronomical proportionsthat analytical categories dominating with, glee as the "potential" takes . many view the two states of mind our fee ling, intuitive qualities. their adviceand becomes"victim." By DANIEL FEff where they were addressed by as antonyms or one another; the With the death or religion and I, myself, bon: witness to a iypical, October 20 • The Max Stern Rabbi Shalom Carmy, an instruc­ poet's stancediametrically oppoacd emergence or "radical freedom almost sterotypical scene or this scholars tonight attended a lecture tor of Jewish studies at Yeshiva to the stance or the scientist and "'comes a rejection or uaditional sort in Greenwich Village when a by Elie Wiesel at the92n d St. •y• University. Rabbi Carmy spoke vice • versa. Unfortunately, as ethicar codes and so, in the car stopped at a red light and a The lecture was the tint event of about the various schools or scientistsclimb higher up the runss eighties. Nietzche's "superman" collegiate nearby told those or us the G_u ltural enrichmentcom ponent thought concerning the Chassidic of the ladder or success, and the traverses the transition from the who . tried to stop the attempt to of the Max Stern Scholarship movement and the differin1 views m.asses arc presented with more . theoretical to the pragmatic. Yet, "let him." Pr01ram. Professor Wiesel spoke regarding the movement. Dr. technologically exciting toys, the we must question "to what end?" Why, we must ask, have we lost about the Jewish fa scination with David Shatz. a911ociateprof es.,or of poet - the paradigm or fe eling - "Middle of the road" is a state or out capacity to feel? To sculpt as legend, dealing specifically with Philosophy at Yeshiva University must succumb to the tokens of being no longer meaningful as did Michaelangelo, write as did Rabbi Abraham Joshua Hcschel or and mentor or the Stern scholars, neglect: . cynicism, apathy, and there is no longer any proper path Wordsworth, or paint as did Apta, a Chassidic master. Mr. also spoke at the dinner as did sarcasm. People wish to hear not to speak or. Thus, the expiration Goya? Why is "abstract" art the Wiesel spoke about Rabbi Associate Dean Michael Hecht, of the poet's "soul," but rather; or or dignity, pride, and all that token or our society? Why can we Heschel's basic philosophy and his who distributed certificates to the . the neurosurscon's "brain,'' not or separates the rational from the no longer fe el - not explain, · but extensive influence in the Jewish scholars. Also in attendance were the poet's "heart," but rather, or irrational. Rock stars such as feel a landscape or portrait? Have community. Dr. Joan Haahr, chairman or the the scientist's "electromagnetic . OzzieOsborne or "Black Sabbath" · we lost the capacity :simply to English department at Yeshiva disturbances." There exists tho• can sacrifice goats on stage or bite "feel?'' So it would appear. The Preceding the lecture was a University, and Dr. Carole Silver, who claim that the asphyxiationor offa Ii� pigeon's head and elicit sound of a small girl's giggle or the · dinner for the Max Stern scholars professor of English at the Stem the crriotive human is merely reactionssuch as .. like wow!" Such (Continutd on Pag, 8, Col. 2} at the Lou G:. Siegel restaurant, College fo r Women. 11 LettersTo The Editor coN11NuEo 11 student.. cannot be expected to Last April I had a rigorous and important element or Y.U. life, the the recent anti-Semiticshoo tings of he should run to · the first maintain a reasonable attendance formal interview with Rabbi dormitory environment is left Yeshiva University students. populated area in the vicinity. level because he must already Cheifi:tz and a handshake agree­ completely to the whim and Tagar, the college campus Glenn Mones, Chairman of endure an unreasonably long ment that I was hired as assistant penonal reference or the head organiz.ation or Detar Educational Tagar U.S.A. has called upon the school day. If so, then there is no dorm coun•lor on the 5th noor or dorm counaclor who is really not youth has been active on the director of Y.U. Tagar, Aaron practical solution to the problem, Morg. Three weeks before school much more than a college kid Yeshiva University Campus since Menche to fo rmulate a student (Continued on Pagt 6, Col. JJ Rabbi Cheifetz informed me that I himself. Room assignmentsshould after its inception last February. patrol should the need arise. did not have a job anymore. The . be on the basis of seniority, need, Tagar is particularly concerned Refe ring to the Anti-Semitic bom­ Commitments and reason given was that the head personal capabilities etc. - not that the shootings were directedat bings and shootings in Paris last dorm counselor had decided to finding gracious ravor in the eyes Yeshiva students, thus showing year Mr. Mones said, "our Leader Res onsibility stay in ·fsrael ro r the year. I still do or the head dorm counselor or that the motives were strictly anti­ Menachem Begin said, If the p not understand how that translates attending a specific yeshiva in semitic. authorities are ineffective Jews To the F.dltor: into my losing a job. The result for Israel. Tagar urges that cautionary should learn to defend themselves,' Before Yom Kippur we say me is the considerable unexpected Steven Schwell measures be taken by Y.U.'s hopefully it won't come to that." hatora.f nedarim because we are expense and hassles of an apart­ \'.C. Senior student body. It strongly suggests Tagar and its affiliate organiza­ ' afr aid that "heaven forbid"we will ment. that Yeshiva students not lea vc the tions offe rs full cooperation to the not honor our committments. My anger was only slightly eased patrolled campus neighborhood authorities and expresses sincere Certainly in the business world a when I heard from many friends Shooting alone, that all suspicious persons hope for and end to these ·handshake is the sacred word of a about theirown hassles with room be reported to the police im­ attrocities. gentleman. Shouldn't we expect assignments. These problems To the Editor : mediately. and when leaving the TAGAR the same professional allitude should not surprise us when The Yeshiva University branch neighborhood, should a student Betar Educational from Yeshiva University? consider that probably the most of Tagar expressesits outrage over suspect that he is bein� followed,. outh Oreanimtlon, Inc. THE COMMENTATOR W...._y, No�� 2, 1983 Rabbi Lamm Delivers; Eulogy - Before Jammed Auditorium · 'IWO ROSIIEI YESHIVA October-27 � More than 1,100 Rabbis, students and relatives WITH A -COMl\fON BOND filled Lamport Auditorium this morning to pay tribute to Rabbi ...,______By DANNY ROS�NTHAL ---- Avraham Aaron Shatzkes and Rabbi Jeru�hum Gorelick, two of Rabbi Yeruchim · Gorelick zt"I Gorelick and Rav Shatzkes found and·R;bbi Shatzkes were "deter- Yeshiva University's most revered Roshei Yeshiva who · died . mined not to give in to American earlier this year. and Rabbi Aaron Shatzkes zt"I a culture quite: different than that' were rebbeim perhaps unfamiliar to of their native Europeancountries. society,'' according �o JUETS . Rabbi Shatzkes, who served on many present Yeshiva students. mashgiach Rabbi Blau. Rabbi the faculty of the Rabbi Isaac They were roshei yesl,iva who ·came Zevulun Charlop, director of Elchanan Theological Seminary to Y.U. after escaping Nazi MVP, commented that Rabbi (RIETS) for _ 40 yean, died ·1ast persecution and . began teaching Gorelick, in emphasizing the August 21. He was 74 years old. shiurim in the early l940's. Yet, "yeshiva" aspect of Y.U. rcpresen- Rabbi Gorelick,who alsoaerved students often came in contact ted a "counter culture." Together on the RIETS faculty fo r 40 years, with their teachings . and with . Rabbi . Shatzkes, Rabbi died September 10 after a Ions philosophies at Yeshiva. Thesetwo Gorelick was among a group of illness. He was 73 years old. rebbeim were innuential in deter­ rebbeim that fought to establish a "This is a sad morflent for the mining the .. hashka/11 1 of the torah institution with the at­ Yeshiva," said Rabbi . l.evulun Yeshiva, as well as the "direction" mosphere and hashkafot of a Charlop, director of RIETS. "It it took, since they · joined the · European yeshiva. focuses·the sad times of the last · RIETS staff in 1943 arid 1944 According · to R�bbi Bronspigel. few months," he said. respectively. In fact, many of their Rabbi Gorelick was also known as talmidim went on to become roshei a "ba'o/ hergesh;" one who had a Rabltl Soloftltdllk AUeads yeshiva at RIETS and those of deep concern and care for .others The audiJorium was jammed to Rabbi· Gorelick alone, include and who understood the psy­ capacity, as students had to stand among . others, such current Rabbi AaronShatzkes, Z'd chology of a talmid. His acts of in the rear of the auditorium and Yeshiva University. rebbeim as) Rabbi Bronspigel, chesed affected many talmidim. as listen from the halls: Dozens of ..Yet ," he said, .. these Rabbi Parnes, Rabbi Shachter, Moreover, many European Jews he assisted his students in matters Rabbis attended the memorial, characterological �ntonyms were Rabbi Reichman, Dean Rosenfeld, who had immigrated to America ranging from the study of gemarah including Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik. unified;not· only in the friendship Rabbi Blau, and high ' school with -the hope of rebuilding their to the monetary· problems of a . that they ·lelt. for each other and Rabbi Yager. lives had turned to a secular and student in need. Dlffe1e11t Yet Sldar the •�cl, ��tz (respect)that they Upon . arrival in America, Rav college education. Rabbi Gorelick As two individuals who fought - "The two great Roahei Yeshiva felt for �chother, but in their ------�---. for a common goal, Rabbi whom we mourn and immortalize uncompromising commitment to Gorelick arid Rabbi- Shatzkes today were in many ways directly Torah, harl,otzas lraToralt, ind to , played key roles in developing a · oposed to each otherin person�lity our Yeshiva. Chief Rabbi ·of France· "yeshiva" atmosphere at RIETS. structure, in cut of mind, and in i•Rabbi Shatzkea was a "'Clra.rsld ' Their ideologies per.vade the walls the form of their interpersonal Hamn/al," (a. sainted man). · Dr. Visits- Y.U .. of the Beit Medrash of this relationships," said Rabbi Dr. Lamm said. "We admired him, we '--...,;______. institution. In their passing this Norman Lamm, President of (Co11tlnu«I on Pag� 9, .Col. J) Rene Samuel Sirat, Chief Rabbi unification between the 'Sephardic summer, Yeshiva lost two gedolim, of France, saidtoday (10/18/83) at and Ashkenazic communities. whose ideologies and teachings; Yeshiva Univenity that anti­ He spoke of renewed commit- promise to live an for many years. Semitism ·in France appean to ment to Judaism in · France, and have backfired, thanks to· the said that attendance in Jewish day solidarity that French Christians schools in France has doubled in have c�emonstrated with their the past fe w years, and now totals Torah Jewish compatriots. some 9,000 students. One of his That solidari�. the Chief Rabbi goals is to double that figure, he U'madah said,, has re;ulted in the ,i�sing said. He also spoke of thegrowing isolation . of the · anti-SCmites, Bal T'shuva movement, particular­ instead of the isolation of French ly among Jewish intellectua_ls. Reader · Jews, which was the anti-SCmites' The Chief Rabbi is head of the aim. department at the Sorbonne which ·Distributed To On the first day of his ten-day includes Hebrew, yiddish, Ladino, visit to the United States and and Judea-Arabic studies in Canada, sponsored by the · tanguage and literature. Students Dr. Norm11La11m, Presldellt of theU11l,en.lty, u hedell,end die ealoU Maybaum Brothers Memorial f R bbl Sllatzkes ud Rabbi Gorelick. Fund at . Yeshiva University, the ' By JOEL PLEETER � � {·,f Chief Rabbi was the . guest of_ l At the beginning of the semester, / ';·: • Torah U'madah honor at a reception hosted by Dr. • ;; "'· l:.! . a Reader was Norman Lamm, President of the distributed by Yeshiva University University.· ·-� · 1 to the entire student body. The 125 YESHIVA COLLEGE At that reception, Chief Rabbi ' ;·; page booklet fea tured a series of Si rat was introduced to a · group of , articles written by contemporary University admini�trators, fatuity philosophers concerning the Torah members, students, and friends by U'madah issue. The reader was MASMID 1984 Dr. Solomon Gaon, the director of published· as a guide fo r students the · Jacob E. Safra Institute for Chief Rabbi, Siral ( r J shown with interested in researching and YEARBOOK Sephardic Studies. Dr. · Gaon, Co,n"'e•t11tor editor Bea-Zion understanding the philosophy of formerchief rabbi of the Sephardic Smilchensky. Yeshiva. Congregations of the British Com­ Rabbi Robert Hirt, Dean theof 2525 Amsterdam Avenue / New York, N.Y. 10033/ (212) 928-1273 monwealth and president of the Chief Rabbi Sirat attributed the Max Stem Division of Communal bear Senior, Union of Sephardic Congregations present situati�n in the Middle Services, believes that there is a The staff �f Masmid 1984 has already begun work on in the U.S. and Canada, alsoholds .East to each group's fear of "need to articulate the position of your yearbook. We hopeto ensure that your yearbook is not the University's professorial chair destruction. As Jews, Moslems, · the institution to the students:" He only the finest yearbook yet, but that it is also the earliest in sephardic studies. and Christians all worship the added that the booklet will "enrich one to be distributed. This is easy to...say, but if it is to be During the reception, Chief same deity, he said,· "only through the students of Torah U'madahand Rabbi Sirat was presented with a adherence to . the Biblical com­ the purposefulness of their educa­ achieved, we · need your cooperation. two volume study of Sephardic mand, 'Thou shalt love Thy tion." Rabbi Hirt has received a Putting· together a yearbook is an. expensive proposition. laws and customs written by Dr. neighbor as Thyself,' can a positive response from both stu­ Total costs can run upwards of S20,000. We are, therefore, . Herbert C. Dobrinsky, vice presi­ peaceful solution be found." He dents and faculty and he hopes to counting on each one of you to bring in at least S100.00 in dent for Uni\'Crsity affairs. believes that peaceful coexistence publish additional Torah-related ads by De(:Cmber 19. Without this money, we will not be At a press conference before the will be achieved, he said. · guides fe aturing articles from the able to ineet our production schedule, and Masmid will not reception, Chief Rabbi Sirat spoke He called for the initiation of a faculty and students. be able to be published before the summer. We-also hope of the 300,000 French people who Jewish-Moslem dialogue on a that each one of you wiH volunteer time- to help with marched to protest the attacks on theological basis, similar to that He also eulogized Raymond Masmid fundraisers. the Ru.e Copemic Synagogue and which now exists betweenJews and Aron, France's leading political Senior ·pictures will be taken during the week of on a kosher restaurant in Parts a Christians. He lauded the recent thinker, who died in France November 7 through November 10. Appointment schedules few years ago. pronouncement by Roger Cardinal yesterday, coincidentally on the "Before World W,ar II such a Etchegarary, archbishop of Mar­ first anniversary of the · death of will be posted in the near future. There will be a nominal demonstration would never have seilles, who declared that Chris- Pierre Mendes-France, former sitting fee of $13.00 per person. The biography slieets that taken place," he · said. "Although . tians must beg forgiveness for their head of the French Jewish you have received must be ,handed in during the week of there still are tensions and Jews persecution of the Jews, · a community. picture-taking. Class photographers are already at work must take precautions, the govern­ pronouncement the Chief Rabbi "These threegreat moral figures, snapping thousands of candid shots to provide us with a ment protection of synagogues called "unique in Jewish-Christian now united in death,'' he said, "all colorful, vibrant yearbook. during the recent High Holy Days relations." maintained their strong commit­ If anyone is interested in helping out, or simply has an was successful in averting acts of Chief Rabbi Sirat expressed his ment to France and also to their idea or suggestion, please feel free to contact us. We look violence." concern for Yosif Begun, who is Jewishness,' though not a · forward to hearing fr om you. Chief Rabbi Sirat is the first · now sentenced to 12 years' traditional religious Jewishness." Sephardi in nearly 200 years to imprisonment in the U.S.S.R. fo r In conclusion, The Chief Rabbi Joseph Greenblatt hold the post of Chief Rabbi. Last having exercised the rights cited the continuing and long Gary Kaufman month he attended Yom Kippur theoretically his under the Soviet - standing friendship between the Editors-In-Chief services at nine synagogues in constitution, to teach Hebrew and people of France and the peopleof Paris, where he sees a growing Judaism. the State of Israel. Wtaelllay, No,emller 2, 1983 : THE COMMENTATOR

. WHAT'S NEWS? Rabbi Addresses Students; _Urges Them 'To Make Aliyah Immediately' Students Greeted With Calls Yeshiva ShootingA �warnin1' . By NACHUM BANE Festive Welcome · October 2S - Rabbi . Meir He called the shooting incidents European Jews befor'e the · By STEVE HOLTZMAN Kahane, the controvenial founder in Washington Heights and anti­ Holocaust." Students arriving at Yeshiva University's Main Center last month of the Jewish Defense League Jewish actions in Hanford, Con­ were welcomed in what has been called by many the largest welcome (JDL) and leader of the Kach _nccticut, "t� beginnin1s of a new Aliyah lmmedlately in the school's history. With banners flying from the rooftops and Party in Israel, spoke to some l 00 risein Anti-Semitism in America," Rabbi Kahane called for all flowers adorning the sidewalks, wide-eyed students filled Amsterdam students tonight at Yeshiva Jews "to make Aliyah immediate­ Ave. The students were given free rood, drinks and clipboards as they University, and urgedthem to "go ly," and stressed that the "good were surrounded by the new colorrul atmosphere at Yeshiva. Yoni to Israel before it's too late." life in the diaspora is only a Schwartz, a sophmore at yeshiva, said, "Orientation was great; I Speaking in the synagogue in temporary one." He said that he didn't have to eat in the cafeteria all week." Morgenstern Residence Hall, Rab­ hoped his words would "shake According to administration officials, it is no accident that the new bi Kahane discussed Aliyah (settle­ Jews out of their sleep and brina look on campus was ready in time for orientation week. the welcome­ ment in Israel). them all home at last." He also home festivities for the students had been planned since last May. cited American Jewish assimilation Sam Hartstein, Director of Public Relations, told the Commentator Bullets art Wa111l ... and "the adoption of Helleni.i that this year's welcome was "just the first of many." He said that the Rabbi Kahane, who referred to attitudes" as major cauaes for Jews school was commiting more of its money and effort toward the the Yeshiva shootings only oncein remaining in the Diaspora. students. He explained that the funding for orientation was given to his address, said that "the bullets the school in the form of anonymous donations. warn us of an end that is coming." When asked about earlier claims Thanks Dr. MOier by JDL members that they would At the conclusion of thelecture, Internship Opportunity patrol the Yeshiva campus, Rabbi Rabbi Kahane thanked Dr. Israel Kahane replied, "why b11s JDL Miller, S.V.P. of Y.U., for his The Jewish Vista Corps offers undergraduates a unique opportunity members in from Queens when, Rabbi Meir Kahane !lpeaks to "fairness" in allowing him to to combine community service with career experience. Program thank God, we have healthy YU students. speak on the campus. He added participants work 6-8 hours perweek in fields including social work, boys who can protect themselves and pointed to theAmeric an Jews' that he wpuld ,return to Y.U. 11 legal advocacy, media /ans, community organizing and social and can handle their own ' unwillingness to accept such trends long as "there was a need to do administration. A stipend of $100per semester is offered and college problems?" "as a similar reaction to that of so." credit can be arranged. Each year, the Jewish Vista Corps selects SO interns from throughout the New York area. Students are placed in agencies compatible with their interestsand learning needs. They also attend severalseminars per Dr. Bevan Urges semester taught by top expens in their field. For more information aMut the program, contact Rena Magun or Greater.Jewish Role In Politics Deborah Sloss at the Jewish Association for College Youth at (212) 688-0808. By MOSHE FELDMAN The Jewish Association forCollege Youth is a memberagency of the Dr. Ruth Bevan, chairman of Ideologies." Through a grant fr om eluded one to Stanford University Federation of Jewish philanthropies, which provides human services the political science department of the Earhart Foundation of Ann during the year l976-l9n, and one and Jewish education to 1.7 million New Yorkers annually with the Yeshiva College, told the Com- Arbor, Michigan, Dr. Bevan to Vanderbilt University during support of the UJA-Federation Campaign. mentator in an interview last week conducted intensive research for the summer of 1981. At Stanford that· .. 'therea� not· enough Jews ... her.book, and studied the common University she was a Hoover entering the field of politics and origins and problems within the Institute Fellow. Her Vanderbilt New Micro-Computers lnstalfed political science departments of ideological world. Dr. Bevan also University position was fu nded by universities around the country." itrcssedthe need "to treatideology the National Endowment for the By LANCE LAIFER "The majority of students look in its full historical and theo.retical Humanities. Yeshiva University library of­ term papers on the computer's toward conventional careers · perspective." "Glad to Be Back" ficials, demonstrating a committ­ video display terminal. "We through which they can make Among Dr. Bevan's other pro­ Dr. Bevan, a member of the m ent to education and recognize the need to serve money," Dr. Bevan said. "More jects last yearwas the presentation Yeshiva University faculty since technological advancement, recent­ students in varying and innovative Jews a� needed in the political of a paper on "Technology and 1965, said of her return to the ly installed three micro-computers ways," he said, "and one way is by science profession so that tbey may Politics" at the International school that she is pleased to sec a on the second floor of the Mendel encouraging students to acquire carry through their needs · and Political Science Meetings in Rio vigorous spirit among the Univer­ Gottesman Library in Washington computer skills." ideals and make their views de Janeiro. Here in the United sity and student body. Heights. \ Students enrolled in computer heard." States, Dr. Bevan lectured at the "After a year of writing," she The Aro,le lie computers, .each courses at the Univ41"sity's un­ Sabbatical Leave Hebrew Institute and at the said, "it is an int�resting and of which are provided to the dergraduate school already have Dr. Bevan, who has returned Kingsbridge Jewish Center on the challenging change to hear the students free of charge, consist of access to extensive computer from a vear's sabbatical leave, topic, "The Vanishing ,American intellectual discourse of the stu­ 64K Ram (Random Access facilities. Those located in the devoted much of her time to Jew." dents and to be subject to their Memory), an 80 column card, two library will be used by non­ writing a major work entitled Dr. Bevan's previous leaves scrutinizing questions. I'm glad to diskettes, a color display monitor computer majors, Professor Baum "Contemporary Political from Yeshiva College have in- be back." and a Dot Matrix printer. Yeshiva said. College and Cornell University arc He also expounded on future the only two universities in the computer services at YC saying New York State area that offer that library officialssoon expect to such a service to their students free connect one of the Apple com­ of c�arge. puters with an outside commercial

Students usinx new Apple computers In the llbnry. According to Professor Frederic data ba se. Such a hookup, said S. Baum, Dean of University Professor Baum, would allow lnAn Prod"'"°"'· 1�7 W 57 St Libraries, the micro-computers students to have access to huge S&aVMy't Htbrsw._ Stotw, 147f•• St. Macabttm Rn11ur1n1, 147 W 47 St offer students two considerable resources, such as news and stock P\at-F.Wel. 686l1•ingion Ave West Sldt GtfrJtwah Store . 2404BrOldway advantages. Students who need market information which would M;,,achl. 2SW 261hS1 1212-619-14141 assistance with a lesson or IIIOOICLYN: provide them with much 01vld'1 R11Laur1n1, 547 K1nrp H�way assignment in the mathematical or bibliogrpahic information in its &.nny·,Photo E6ec.. 4717 131h Av, Gel1n Fin, Food,. 1213 Av, J physical sciences have access to abstract form. £1 Al c., SffV1C1, 4920 New UtrtchlA..,. QUEENS: special tutorial diskettes, designed According to library rules, L,vv·• MothtTP!&M IN10m 1J_ 6"·28M,1n St . flu1h1ng Cltfflfl0th. 64-27 Hlfhh 51 . fo,111H1llt to assist the student in studying the micro-computers may be reserved UONJI: subject matter and analyzing i for a maximum of two hours up to FlathKothtr P\aa . .'.t702 R1ffld1• A1,o1 problems relating to that lesson. In one week in advance. Unreserved addition, students have access to microcomputers are available on a two special word processing dis­ first-come, first-serve basis for up kettes which enable students to type to a two-hour period. Pa• '··· · -- THE COMMENTATOR Wedaeluy, No,ellller Z, 1983 Spilky Listed In Satisfactory Condition By MORDECHAI I. TWERSKY Don Spilky, the 17-year old student w1l o was injuredin the September ------BY DAVID SCHWARCZ ______. 17th shooting on the Cross-Bronx Expressway, is reported to be in The bang on thedoor joltedme Startled by his icy re1ponae, • • consumed me and turned into a .."sati sfactory condition" at Long Island Jewish Hospital. out of bed. "Who is it?, "I began to fiddle with some papers blessing in disguise. The studying Mr. Spilky, a acnior at the Marsha Stem Talmudical Academy • grunted. "Just open the door, we to soothemy high level of anxiety. and worryingoccupi ed most of my Yeshiva University High School for Boys in• Manhattan, told got no time! " As I turned the "Where have I gone wrong? time and aeMd as a su�conacious Commentatorin an interview by telephone that all he wants to do is "j ust knob, the door wasthrust into my Maybe I lhouldn't have di•urbed ploy to regain my self-confidenoc. get out of bed." Spilky was shot in the leg, and has been in traction for chest and threw me backwards. him in the middle of da■. "The Sifting throuah term papen of the past five weeks. He is expected to have a brace put on his leg this "Give us the goods!, "the vilitors profeuor finallydismi•d us and I previousyears, I came aero■some week and he will receive crµtches and begin physicaltherapy . He suffered exclaimed. "Hey, take it easy. rushed outside to catch the boys. more valuable goods. Unwilling to a fractured femur. Maybe we can work somcthi111 Espying them f'rom aero■ the compromiae my principles, I. A woman riding in another car on the Expressway, LIICilleRivera, was out! "The more I tried to calm - street, I signaled for them to wait. declined to u1e the goods u killed by thesniper fire."I realiz.e thatthe bulletcould havepenetrated thingi down, tlie more hostile and They headed toward the cafeteria blackmail. I toued I the goods my knee or even killed me," he said. "Thank 0-d I . wasn't killed." demanding my visiton became. in total dil111ud or my wiahes. apathetically on my desk and left It is not yet•knownwhen Spilky will beable to returnto classes,but he "Pleae, "they slyly gestured, 1>er11nt or this rejection, I con- ror the library. indicated that he is being tutored daily Englilh studies and in Judaic · "we'lltalk later,just fork it over! " fidently ran to the . cafeteria and · On the morning before the Bio studies. Realizing that thee guys meant confronted my 'buddieL' "Hey . Lab final, a big envelope was Mr. Spilky said that R!ibbiGeorge 8. Finkelstein, assistant principal of business, I furtively slipped the guys. why didn't you wait up for aff"uted to my door with a note MSTA-YUHS, "has been extremely supportive," and learns goods into an envelope and me?" My threenlaht callen lc,okecf. tucked inside. It read:"Thanks fo r Gtnro,rd,(Talmud) with him every day. handed them over. up at me with mockinnocence and the help. Come by my room Asked how he felt about the shooting incident, Mr. Spilky replied, "I The next morning I rolled out of crackled, "Take it easy. We were .. immediately. It's an emerpnc:y!" guess there is not much I can do about it. I have accepted what has bed in a depreaed mood and justin a bigrush.�' Envelopedwith . On the way to their room, Isteeled happened." forced myselfto go to clus. While rage, I retorted, "You guys sure myself with the determination to strolling by the ftower 1arden found enouah time to alk me for be tough and unyielding in my outside Funt Hall, a refreshing the ood1 s!" "Don'tbe 10uptight," bargaining with them. Shooting Still Unsolved thought pertedme up. "They must they coldly remarked, "j ust mellow "Come in and join u1," Jack have been too busy lut night. I'm out! " Realizing that I was pretentiously gestured. "We (Continwdfrom hp 1,Col. 1) According to Dr. Israel Miller, sure they'll find time for me double-crossed, I sank my head haven't seen you in such a long has been offered by the Univenity Senior Vice Prelident or Yclhiva today." low and "mellowed out." time. How's it going? "Outraged for information leading to the Univesity, contributions to the Peeking through the window of Weeks went by and I did not by their overt display of hipocracy, apprehension and convictionorthe reward fund can be made by the classroom door, I spotted .my receive any unexpected guests at I• countered fea rlessly. "Two person or penons involved in the sending chec:ks to the Y. U. new buddie�huddled· in the back. I night. I gradually receded into months ago, · you guys totally · shootings. In addition, a S10,000 Reward Fund, 500 W. 185th St., entered the classroom with anonymity and that fateful incl- ignored me and now you have the reward has been offered by the New York, N.Y. 10033. renewed vigor and strategically · dent_ became a distant memory. 'chutzpah' to consider yourselves Cityof New York and S3,000by a Persons with any information took my seat next to them. The My desirc to ro nn new friendships my best friends?" group · of Jewish organizations about the shooting should call a lecture hall was dark and clammy was tainted by this experience and Jack got up from his bed, working with the AmericanJewilh special phone hot-line nulftber at and the captive students appearcd I became paranoid. Every intense walked over to me,placed his arm Committee. (212) 598-8071. lifeless. To rescue myselffr om this expression that I observed in and gently explained, "Well you boredom, I turned and whispered, . . ..··· othen carried me back to that know how things are during the ;.•, "Hey, Jack! ... Jack! ... Jack!" At dreadful first night of the semester. semester -:- we all getcauaht up in .. long length, Jack lifted his head up Would I remain cooped up our own thing:" I condesciendingly from his biology book and threw forever?The expresion, .. Man is a retorted, "Well, you see, Jack, I me a cold starc.. . Where arc you social being, "quoted in didn't realize you were so busy. guys going for lunch?� "I casually .. Philosophy 1, .echoed in my mind. Next time I'll know better." inquired·. Jack raised his chin "Am I human? Arehumans aeally Sensing that he pacifiedmy rage,' ·smugly, glanocd at me, and social beings?'' Jack confidently uked for the new returned to his text. · The grueling pressures of finals goods. Pausing for a· moment, I lopked at Jack and said I would return shortly. Resigned to the workings of the system, I lamely ■■■ · returned to my room and fe tched AND MORE NEWS �he goods...... Later that semester, I banged ______, on the door, jolting my soon-to-be �YPD taking time to smile for Commie. I I "buddy" out of bed, and deman­ ·Law School Acceptance Rate at 92% de� the goods ... By. STUART EHRLICH . success on the LSAT and and in ·Attendance Through the diligence and law school itself." He sites concentrated efforts of both facul­ (Continuedfrom hge 1, Col. lJ ty and students, the pre-law program at Yeshiva l)niversity is a and the Student Senate is wasting success. Last year, 92% or the its time. Perhaps since Y.U. has Yeshiva applicants to law school very fe w couracs, sections and were accepted. The previous year, teachers and has more require­ t()OCI, of the Yeshiva students ments compared to other univer­ applying were accepted, a feat not sities, it is much more likely that a equalled . by many univel'f:ties. student in Y.U. ,will end up with These figures exemplify only . ., courses or teachers he is not of the strides Yeshiva has taken 111 interested in, and this . may recent years. The fact that many . contribute to the attendance · graduates are now preparing fo r problem. their careen in such prestigious Lastly, this whole debate begs universities as Harvard, Yale, Dr. Mlchael Htdlt, AssodateDean the question - can attendance Columbia, Cornell and New York aid pre-law a4MIOI'. levels really be objectively es­ University substantiates the specifically the development oT tablished? Who is to say what is program's undeniable success. organizational abilities, a senlitivi­ considered a good or b�d atten­ The rigorous curriculum at ty to text, and a conceptual dance level? How did the Student Yeshiva, consisting of both analytic ability to preview text. Senate come up with 66%? Why Hebraic and secular studies, These fundamentals are esential not 65%? Obviously, numbers are coupled with a highly competitive for a student's success in law meaningless. atmosphere, has contributed to the school. I am not questioning the success of the program. According According to Dean Hecht, the honorable motive of the Student to Associate Dean, Michael Hecht, higher LSAT scores at Yeshiva in Senate - that is, to guarantee the there is a definite correlation comparison to lower SAT scores welfare of the student body. between the success or the law attest to the success of the Yeshiva However, I am dissappointed that students and the unique program law curriculum. This srade dif­ the Student Senate behaved so offered at Yeshiva. He indicates ferential is a phenomenon rarely rashly by acting on a problem that Yeshiva students receive achieved at othei: schools. which had no supporting evidence; "unanticipated, but real benefits If the past is any indication of that it chose to punish the student from the intensive Talmudic study the futurc, pre-law students at when the student's guilt is so fa r at Yeshiva, which nurture the Yeshiva can look optimistically at from certain.One would think that development or skills essential for the road ahead or them. the Student Senate would give the student the benefit of the doubt. The Student Senate must reali;r.e DON'T FORGET! that some problems don't have JOIN COMMENTATOR simple solutions. Finally, the POLI-SCI SHABBATON Student Senate should wonder, as I Typists: See Howard T. Konig • M8 IO do, if punishing the student really Nov. 4th at S.C.W. serves the student's interests. News Reporters: See M. Twersky • M421 See Joel Cohen - M403 Ari Weltmer D. Schwarcz • M729 IBC YC '84 W.._..ay, November 2, 1983 . THE COMMENTATOR Page 7

. . MYP Changes '�,' The Kaplan Proposal: Is It Dead? Says RIEfS Director By MORDECHAI TWERSKY Citins security reasons, financial examination and feel that they likely to be considered, Rabbi By MORDECHAI 1WERSKY students," and was considered "an considerations, and the beginning must retake the exam would be Charlop answered that the second The major changes. that have overriding success." of "an intolerable precedent," Mr. allowed to repeat the entire proposal seemed "more realistic." been implemented this fall in The three cla111es, which were Stanley H. Kaplan, founder of the Kaplan preparation course in the He indicated, that a meeting or regardto shiur level and stNcture siven by three of the Yeshiva's famed test preparation center, spring "without being charged the special Kaplan Committee is in the Masr Yeshiva Program most distinguished Rabbis, Rabbi rejected a proposal to open one or, another full fee ." • scheduled fo r "the very near (MYP)have provento be ..tremen­ J. Parness, Rabbi A. Bronspigel his branches at the Yeshiva future." dously succeuful," according to College campus. Start at lntenelllon Rabbi l.evulun Charlop, Din:ctor Mr. Kaplan, however, in a The second proposal calls for "Totally Oppoled" of MYP and RIETS. meeting with Y.U. administration the Stanley H. Kaplan Center to Mr. Kaplan, who, according to officials, raised two alternative beginits sprins course(fo r Yeshiva Rabbi Charlop is said to have been "Greater Flexl"lty" proposals to help accomodate students only) in January rather "totally opposed" to openins a In an interview with the yeshiva students I taking the than in February. Lectures would branch uptown, cited aeveral c1-111ta1Dr, Rabbi Charlop said MCAT, LSAT, and GMAT begin one rponth earlierand tapes reasons for his opposition to the that the new 1hiur-level oraaniza• examinations. would be made available 10 that proposal. tion has pven students ..even mon: He raised concerns that the distribution and flexibilty than we October Exam tapes,which play a significantpart had hoped." Accordins to Rabbi Zevulun or the preparation course, could He explained that with the Charlop, director of MYP and not be properly safesuarded from · addition or another ta/mud class chairman or the specialcommittee theft or transcription. Additional­ to the4th yearlevel, "much or the or administration officials and ly, taking into account security, 1tre11 and owmowdins in these Roshei Yeshiva studyins variouE administrative staff, and machinery clanes has been alleviated." By Kaplan proposals, the rintsuges­ rcqujremerits, Mr. Kaplan could movins two third year ta/mud t ion would requirestudents to take not consider opening up a branch instnactors, Rabbi J. Parnes and all physical science courses during for less than 200 customen. Rabbi H. Schachter, into the 4th their first two years of college According to Rabbi Charlop, there year level, and by placins ad• Rabbi Ze,ulunCharlop, Director of study. arc at best, some 60 students who ' ditional Rabbis in the third )' Hr RIETS According to the plan, with are pre-meds and and pre-dentsat slot, "both third and four th year Biology, Physics, Organic and ln­ the college each year. Further­ classes hawbeen strensthened and · and Rabbi H. Reichman, dealt oraanic Chemistry having already more, according to Mr. Kaplan, are now more evenly distributed." with topics resarding the laws of been taken, students would be free Mr. Stanley H. Kaplan the etablishment of an uptown '"As a result or the chanses," he the Hish Holy Days. to prepare for the MCA TSdur ing campus would constitute ..an said, "shiur selection has not been "Despite the fact that there ·were the summer preceding their junior students could start preparing fo r intolerable precedent for students a problem for students." no official Enslish classes at that year and then take the exam, in the exam during intersession. at other schools who have long time," Rabbi Charlop said, "well October. ..Much or the pressure would be been lobbyingfo r a genterat their Slba ,a.a,. a Sllcceu over 100 students attended each taken offof the students," Rabbi schools." In a related development, Rabbi class." Free Coura Charlop explained, "and students The original Kaplan proposal Charlop has told the Commentator Rabbi Charlop added that Rabbi Charlop added that Mr. would be able to attend classes came as Yeshiva University of­ that the three shiur klallm (seneral because of the outstandins number Kaplan gave assurancesthat under more regularly in the Spring ficials have expressed concern that classes). which were held between of students who choseto remainat the plan, he would make special semester than they have in the students arc missing much of their the High Holy Days of Ro11t the Yeshiva for the cla•ses, ..the arrangements with the University past." clas.�es, particularly in Judaic HaSltanah and Yom Kippur, .. at• Yom To, services were especially that thosestudents who did not do When asked which or the two studies. The proposal was meant to tracted an overft�wing number or enlightening." well on the October MCAT proposals he thousht was most help alleviate those concerns. ,, .'C...•·•:.:''-•.. , • -;. ". ;, ' l. -.. 82 YU; Excitement THE C1n OF Nirw YO llll Herzog and o,,icir 0, THE MAYOII On The Air New YORK. N.Y. 1000• Chief Rabbis by ROBERT KATZ semester. And 82-YU won't bore (Continued fromPa ge /, Col. 2) Let's get down to the Nitty­ you with poor music, either. Arter September 23, 1983 Gritty. In an effort to attract more working out deals with CBS, States tomorrow, marks the first listeners for its 16th year, WYUR · Columbia and Capitol-EMI Dr. Norman Lana time that the Sephardic and has undergone some major per­ records, plus receiving 500 free Pre■ident Ashkanazi Chief Rabbis will be sonality changes. records from WYNY-FM, you can Ye■hiva Univerai ty 500 We■t 18�th Street travelling together abroad. First and fo remost, WYUR has be sure that the quality of music Nw York, N.Y. 10033 Rabbi Shapira was . appointed added 75% more Jewish/Israeli will improve. Dear Dr. Lua: Dayan (judge) on the Jerusalem music over last year, meaning that Speaking of programming, the The recent sniping incident on the Croaa Bronx Expressway• Rabbinical Court by the Chief a whopping 45% of their schedule · 82-YU board has tried to diversify which haa been linked by police expert• with other incident• of Rabbi or Israel. HaRav Yitzchak will be devoted to Hebrew music. as much as possible. Recognizing violence on and near the Yeshiva Campus in Washington Heighta and the Jewish Memorial Hospital - leave• all New Yorkers sickened. and Halevi Herzog, 7J'I, some 40 years The belief there is that it's the the fact the Sunday and Thursday outraged. ago. station's duty to give the Yeshiva evenings arc not going to help Thia dastardly act, which seem• to be the product of deranged In 1973, Rabbi Shapira was listener programming which is anyone win the radio ratings, 82- anti-aemitism, is despicable. Aa Mayor of the City of Nev York, J pledge thst ve will use every available reaource in thia City appointed · to the Rabbinical unaccessablc anywhere else. No YU will be on the air from 7 PM to bring the peraon or persona reaponaible for thi• action to Supreme Court in Jerusalem other AM Radio station in New to I AM. From Mon • Wed our jutice. J call upon all Nev Yorker• · to help the police investi- 9aton in every way poHible. • , before becorriing a member of the York City will play even half the time will be 6 PM to 2:30 AM. J want to asaure the Yeshiva University convnunity that the Chief Rabbinate Council. Until his Hebrew music WYUR will Out of 37 I /2 hours or broad­ - York City Police Department will provide special protection and appointment as Chief Rabbi in provide. casting per week, 18 will be attantion to that community until thi■ caae ia resolved. 1983, Rav Shapira had served as The next step is to go back to devoted to Hebrew, 13 to Rock, 4 or Yeshivat Mercaz the beginning of the article and hours to Classical Music, I 1/2 to Harav in Jerusalem. replace "WYU R" with "82· YU." "The Best of Broadway" Show Rabbi Eliyahu, ordained for In an effortto better identify with and one hour to the Yeshiva Dayanut at the age or thirty, was the Yeshiva U. student, "82-YU" College fa vorite, "Sports-Talk." the youngest Dayan to be appoin­ will be the new non-commercial Every year you read in the ted in his day. The Rishon name fo r the 82AM station. Commentator about the progress ...... ", ... ._ St11_11W_us'.NJ!..c!J. . LcTzion served as a Dayan in the And yes, the moment you've all of WYUR and what's going to be · Rabbinical Courts or Beersheba been· waiting fo r • .contests and better that year than any other and Jerusalem before his appoint­ prizes! 82-YU will be giving away year. Well, this year is no different. , i'S. .... ment to the Rabbinical Supreme 10 free singles to 82 YU students, Actually, it might be. Go ahead, , ....- � Court in Jerusalem in 1971. He plus 82 dollars to two of its give it a shot • WYUR, 82AM on served there until his appointment listeners throughout the fall your dial. TllE AIIHl/ll. INTIRCOLLEGlATi S�% Tll%P ,o as Chief Rabbi in 1983. Rav VE1tn�1.r .Slt,Vij'IJRS »ow, s,a 1tE101tT. Eliyahu also served as a "" L10 LL� 6� IN TfRSESfION in the Kiryat Moshe Quarter of SUN. :PJI. 2l. � TIIUR.J'AN.2� Jerusalem, serving both Sephardic IUD/JR. SUN, 'JAi, 2, • THVR.FEB. ;. and . E��OT OU� .SPECTAC\11.AR 3 NOIJNTAttl COlf Pllt Sephardic Students ' l ". t ·. ,I ll ·, i P' I I f,J/D t>ELV)CE CONDOl1%11Zll/1Sj J'll�LY' Eq�:mo ! ·, !' \, " At present, there arc some 200 I 'I I' i"\, ! -� W?TK fl.ILL lCITCHEN,rJ Rr ,�1m: 1,0�01'.T.11 AIL : . ! ,, ..j •. •, I I(! f I Sephardic students at Yeshiva · , \\' \, I 1Ht-. \, ·, AtCOl'IODAT:OWS ARE LOCATED AT THE FOOTDF Tllf ,. University, spanning parts of I:, 1\ 1 : I- I ,•,1 11 I SLOPE. fbUtFULL IJIGMT.S OF UV! .ENTIATAlN/fENT. I[ I Morocco. Brazil, Mexico and Iran. ,Ii I . 1·. i ,,j:, orsco, LO\/NGES,J'A CIJn:MD JA iJIIA. ALSO TE,/1/tl, "We are ve ry·pleased that the I Hl ; '' , I' \" SUlMING AHO Sri.ATlN�. ALI. F'OR iTI/IT Rishon LeTzion is coming to visit o.. :. , ·,_ :, ,11\ l•i ' •L· TAAll5RlP.T,LJTT HODGE' ·'113 our Yeshiva," said Rabbi Mitchell -'-· ti fl.VS LESSO/I . ·-•2qa Serels, director of Sephardic Com• I\•"' ,ws ,.,,m� -•a..i munity Aclivities and Associate 10% discount to all Y.U. students .,. 41i PIJJ5 CQJI-.DtllATlOIJ -•au. Director of the Sephardic Studies Ltnrrro .SPACE �VAIL48LE'. ltmAVI Al tool program at Yeshiva University, for weekdays only. AS foSSIILf., FOP. 'RUIP.'IA110I/S C,IIL I. INFO "and it is our hope that this visit Visit our new dining room! CA�I. will further cement the bonds Let us host your next club meeting! • .SETH• .i11.-trt·,1fl between our Yeshiva and the office .fso OEPOSIT BY Oft l u of the• Rishon LeTzion." P•�-!. THECOMME NTATOR Weclllnuy, No,__, J, Ital Who Is Grandma? Then And Now . ;:-.,·, .--:-. ------By OIAIM GEJERMAN _. ___ _. They're up at dawn every They became fa mous city-wide for S.O.Y. (who had to taste test 4 momin1. come rain or shine, . their goods, and were 1iven a dozen cookies before allowing brcakin1 egs, mixins batter, write-up in New Yorker magazine their official certification). -- �,*-/·t:·:] (September 1980) for their brow- Althouah inany a prolmor can �- ,, kneadin1 dou1h, starting o.-ens... ••,, ,�, No it's not those guys from nies. be round munching happily on his ••·•ffi:·��.�, .. s;�· ;,;·:•�j?c�. �---··� Dunkin' Donuts you see on T.V., Unhappy with their high rent favorite cookie (check ror it's Mr. Pandelis Veas and his wire · and small store front space, Mr. chocolate stainson your next test Angelica, ownen or Grandma's and Mrs. Veas moved to paper), the majority or Grandma's Cookie Jar. Although the Washington Heights last March, customers arc high school and storefront, at 2543 Amsterdam hoping to continue sellin1 college students. The owners are Avenue. is too clean to look like a wholesale to uptown gourmet quite impreae� with Yeshiva grandmother's baking kitchen delis. Suprisinaly, Mr. and Mrs. University students. "They arc (0our covering everything, pieces very nice and exceptionally of dough on the wall, chocolate kind ... .lf they're a fe w cents short chips spread over the table) any they always bring their money in grandmother would be proud to later." Grandma's is always willing bake cookies as delicious as to accept suggestions ror improve­ Grandma's. Offering 8 flavors of ment and has already implemented cookies, brownies, and 9 flavorsor new ideas offered by some ice cream, Grandma's has become students. These new ideas include a favorite snack spot or the Y.U. the openjng or an ice cream community. Yet Grandma's counter and the introduction or the seemed to materialize rrom "plain" cookie on Monday, Oc­ nowhere last year, and many tober 24. (S111ge1 tlon.r fo r fre e M . . •....,. ...LLt W'-uL..- GIii .....u.w llaMlinlc ·Alufflnl ,....,,.- ,.;. .,._...... �- . ',_, , .. . - �i,:-,i�- -�:,tlli!o;.. -;,,,· noshers are now wondering where .,ample., are 1ti/l under Pro,,o.. ,Stro,,.ehe,il111 Yethlwo.-Alu111fll tlt1 ::i.,. these Cookie Monsters have come Veas didn't considerYeebiva High consldemtlon. J ------.....::--., ,· �;...... ,_..,. ,._,.,;:,,...,..,., from. School or Collcp· . itudents as . Everyone seems to approve or Thecookie business is relatively potential customen untU their Grandma's Cookie Jar. Yet while new to the Greek couple who own neighbor, Dr. Samuel Schneider Grandma's is 11ining a lot or • , __,,- ,,... ,,..:"<�,\,:t,"" :• ;I.� ...... -�--� - Grandma's. The idea came tothem (Hebrew prof'essor at Y.C. . and a approval, many student• aregain­ �t �,�:.�-=-\ - . �l.;� .\:�. �-,.,:-:..� ·..:...... ' . ·. . ., , .. . .•·�: �_!.,i.1.�rI..:.:tf. ..··. . 3 years 110 when Mr. Veas, who conli:ssedcookie addict), suggested ing a lot or weight.The owners are :::�:t had been employed as a waiter, · that they become Kosher. At his trying to come up with a "low cal }.§�� ;:i!'.�:''·,,Jj!{ 4J.t.;:,ll!)i�� '.i.:◄';e_in,.__ .fJ-· .�... •· i_·-.:-. · complimented his wire · on her suggestion, they called the cookie" but there seems to be no 1 _s:._=.·•.·.:.}.. . �.:•-�� ,;.;;;�� -� t:!:'.:-:.:..=;:;:�.� home made cookies and cakes, Orthodox Union which told them replacement ror the original tal >1� ""'lr.:"1 ...-,.,.. J,, - ��::.•-(,; ...... _. : . _:_ _�::, ,•. ·::· •.. . �...... c �.,...... !��I....,•- _,� ...._ .._,...,.__ , ...... ,.A"flf- wr•t! � ...... •- su11esting that they sell her baked to contact the Mashgiach R.uchani cookie. One student summed it up 1' . -= ,. soods to the public. After some Rabbi Yoser Blau. Another saying (between mouthfuls or . .-�--...._ �...! ,.'t�\::'!- 1!J :.��-:·. '. �!,-;.:: .:=�;,:: :::.=;..Z:"v:.:!":: �;::!:; ��J:.=:, inquiries, they opened Grandma's neighbor or the owners, Rabbi crumbs) "my grandmother makes ��•f'a ••�-....b_�·c-, •.:�� � - : Cookie Jar on 86th street and Ashen koshered all the utensils for a mean chicken soup but as far as =� _. . · . �� ;{;:,:. Lexington Avenue; sellina them and presently serves as the cookies go, nothing beats wholesale goods to gourmet delis. Mashgiach under the auspices or Grandma's Cookie Jar." Feelings ... Hector's (Continuedfrom Prlrr3 Col. 3) Auto School eam�st. serious,. quizzical face and eyes or a young boy no longer SHl-lll!! MAMA'S TALKING . Phone: 928-0336 move us. Piling up leaves in autumn and jumping in, is no Sperlal discount fo r Y. U. longer our younger sibling's in­ ..______By F.STHER MAZOR ______. Auto ln.wrance Available terest • after all, why dothat when the next door neighbors have Pac This Com11U11t•tor l1.,ue in­ history repeating it!IClf or is it a the best concern or our children. Man? So too, thanks to the trodutes a ntw fo rum, where case or familiarity? The excitement d( leaving Y.U. telephone, has our ability to write Ytshiva Unl�rsity parent1 may. Many will say that fa miliarity and entering this large university and compose poetsy diminished? expre1s there view1 and �rtep1ion1 breeds disrespect and even con• was enonnous. I mysclr got Arter all, why be wordy when one of Y. V. whld1 thev have obtailfed tempt • J can't reje ct this notion, entangled in the changing proces.,. can be conci!IC? Why not say "I fro m tlrt txptrlttree., · of their but familiarity is the fo undation or - The anticipation or encounterin1 a read that Launcelot kissed children. brotherhood, friendship and strange land, walking through a overall togetherness. � Guenevere" rather than Dante's Listening to my son and his new experience, engulfed my son's "when we read how that smile, so friends, reminds me or my own I am not alone in my worries life during the last summer months thirsted fo r, was kissed by such a experiences. · Although mine go and concern for the safety or my and so my own too. FIRST II lover that he may never from me back twenty odd years it is as if I sons. Mrs. "Plony'' and Mrs. He started school the day before be separated more, all tremblins lived them again through my own "Almony" are concerned too • Rosi, Ha1hana. Classes continued TEST kissed my mouth." children. Location, form or And so is Dr. Lamm and Dr. during all or our holidays and PREPARATION Cenainly, technology is wonder­ studies, institution, teachers have Miller. Unsuprisingly Ed Koch is Yomlm Tovim with no concern SINCE 1938 ful and necessary to our growth, all been differentbut the es.,cnce is concerned too • and not solely toward any group of students. (I but what we need to remind the same. It is quite possible that because he is the mayor of N. Y.C. have no doubt that at least 30%of ourselves is that so is humanism for this �ason I wished for my The declaration by the mayor that the student body in that univenity aAd so are the humanities. We soi,s to pursue their academic the last shooting events are anti• is Jewish. cannot allow ourselves to become education at Y.U. · Familiarity semetic in their origins brought to Attending some business in the robots � rocks to be kicked about makes it easy to deal with, it is the my mind some links of my financial office my son was by newfound technological skills. extension of my: own environment, familiarity. notified that his filehas been lost - And should one ask "why not?" theref ore theirs too. M' second son is now entering dealing with him must cease until answer thus: would you want life In the past three years, it was Y�shiva College. In the middle of the file is round. As I sat in my to be so empty, so hard,and to be not always easy to deal with the the summer I receiveda letter from kitchen I could not stop thinking devoid or tears, to be devoid of dilemas and obstacles.my older son Dr. Miller welcomins my daughter about that beautiful September laughter'? To beemp ty or giggle or encountered at Y.U. I am sure to Stem Collegd. The error was day when my son became a lost sob? Should this ra il to convince, these problems werenot his alone. puuling to me, I was amused by file. well, simply ask if lire can exist Living on the Y.U. campus he was the thought that somewhere rar We spoke ro r hoursabout being without the aforementioned not unique and many homes like away a mother will receive my lost in the crowd, an unnoticed emotions? Jr it can, I'll eat my mine were involved and entangled son's welcome letter for her entity, unfamiliar body and a yarmulka. physically and emotionally with daughter to Y.U. I was delighted missplaced body. It fell like a Jay Auslandtr iJ a Junior in the same problems.I tend to brush to receive a second letter, rrom Dr. dagger in my heart when he said I I.B.C. and Y. C. it orr, but wasn't it the same for Miller, two weeks later letting me am almost a "nobody." He me in a difTernt era? A different' know about the switching of the reminased about his Y.U. years. Answers to time? envelopes in the admission office. The Rabbis and professors were · With my son, I spent many But the delight was mostly fe lt suddenly addressed with titles and · Crossword Puzzle hours listening to stories or his because of fa miliarity in speech. full names; Amsterdam avenue was Rabbis, professors, teachers calling Dr. Miller wrote in his letterabout never portrayed as beautifully as in them at best by their last name the Slraidlm and other mischevious this small talk or ours. The only, fo ,seting to add the titles. I creatures which plagued the ad• cafeteria rood is delicious, a real recall getting all excited and ministration at times. My older bargain and one can't ·get a better "laughing my head orr• when a son is continuing his education in chocolate brownie as in runny anecd�te was told and also a large university in the City. I Grandma's Cookie Jar. And yes all getting annoyed at the reference to doubt whether a letter like this will these guys rrom Y.U., they knew SternColle ge as "our'Little Sisters' ever be written by his dean to each other. No doubt my younger PtrminentCenters In More Than from downtown" or listening to correct an error. The letters I son at Y.U. and his sistersat Stem 120M1j0r U.S. Cities& Abroad. "She is a typical Stem girl." But received so fa r did not instill in me are somebodies. For Information AboutOther Centers then I wondered what they • the a thread of familiarity, the ball E.fther Mazor, a mothtr of two OUTSIDE N. Y.ITATE CALL Stem sister school • call a Y. U. game is not being played in my Ye.,hive College .ftudtnts, WO.I' born TOLL FREE•zn-1112 student? And how about myself25 own turf. and ,al.Ted In l.frael. Sire is pre1tntly �-F.t�• yet,rs ago attendins an all girl an a.uociate director at a nur1lng �.a.uau, school • what did I call them? Is Education must be pursued tor home In Staten l.dand. Wedlwlll1y, No,eMber2, 1983 THE COMMENTATOR P11e 9

Wurzweiller School of Social and staff, with· needs and expecta­ . Groundbreaking Work and Ferkaur Graduate tions far different from those in (Continuedfrom Po,e l, Col. S) School, will soon accommodate the 19S0's. The Campus Repair phase or the all-encompassing more academic and faculty offices. Project is meant to address those university-wide renovation and Such a move, say university concerns. beautification plait that is currently officials, is e�pected to insure What do you think of the new bushes and benches at YU?? being launched. The University's better energy conservation. Project Satisfies New Ordinance Main Center in Washington Furthermore,Science Hall has also Besides improving the Universi­ Heights is the initial. focus or an been water-proofed ,and has had ty's appearance, the project would "The benchesare nice, but it can overall program, called "The structural improvements. Exterior also satisfy provisions of a new behar d kicking off the old ladies; I Centennial Facilities Improvement lighting, too, has been installed. city ordinance, Local Law 10. That told them to just water the Program.'.' The Student Union Building, far ordinance requires the periodic plants!" from being neglected in the inspection of any building over six Yitz Solomon Slplflc1nt Changes renovation plan, has received a floors in height and- the correction YP Senior siudentshave noticed significant sleek and decorative paint job of potentially unsafe. conditions, changes at the uptown campus. which according to one student such as loose bricks or mortar. The addition of redwood benches "sets it apart from the _buildings While remedial work has already "They're great to hide behind in and flower assortments throughout around it." The interior . or the begun at three or the University's case of a sniper attack." . the school's campus has given the building has taken on new buildings, a major re�vation e Neil Adler school �- park-like setting. One dimensions . and now contains a project would ensure that none of IBC Junior student commented that the new parking level on the ground floor the same p·roblems would appear campus look "provides a healthier as well as expanded space for 20 or 30 years from now. 'W academic atmosphere as well as a student activities on the second 'Dr. , Norman Lamm, President place to just sit and relax between floor. Presently, the �tudent Union of Yeshiva University, said of the --. classes." building is home-basefo r WYUR - renovation project that "we hope "The flowersmake great natural ·Other improvements have in­ the official student radio ·station of to provide our students with a ash trays" ,� ..� cluded the modernization and Yeshiva College.The building also more comfortable environment in Jeff' Ballabon rehabilitation of administration houses the YC Dramatic Society. which to study, offering them the YP Junior officesand the main lobby at Furst proper ecology or �ucation." Hall, which houses Yeshiva Renovation of Other Centen Dr. Lamm added that the College. Color-coordinated car­ At the Midtown Center, plans renovation would also create "a peting and freshly painted walls call for the consolidation and more condusive atmosphere for "They make great dorm room' have given the building a "brighter' expansion of the Siem College research and training, the twin fu rniture" and more attractive appearance," Library, the redesign or the concerns or our faculty." one student remarked. Additional College's library, and the evalua­ Neal Mitnick plans call for the rehabilitation of tion or space to mak" sure all the JSS Senior the building's roof and elevator College's needsa� being met. The Eulogy , tower. Brookdale Residence Hall would (Continueifrom Page 4, Col. 2 J The College's dormitories too, be repainted, and its common cherished him, and he was loyal to "Bitter disillusions. I have been slated for major areas would be refurnished. transferred to YU because of the improvements. The Morgenstern At the Brookdale Center, The us-especially to our Yeshiva. His memory willalways be a source of appeal or the neighborhood. I say, Residence Hall is already undergo­ rehabilitation of, the building;s bring on the foul-breathed winos!" ing roof repair, and will soon be elevators head the list or priorities. blessing to us." painted. The Rubin Residence Plans also call for the development Dr. Lamm characterii.ed Rabbi Ari Weitzner Hall's washroom facilities will be of vacant space now available for Jeruchum Gorelick as a Rosh IBC Senior rehabilitated and the building's purchase or n,ntal, and the Yeshiva who at all times "ap­ hallways will be painted. -redesigning or space to meet the . peared to be engaged in some kind or titanic inner struggle. He was a needs of Benjamin N. Cardom , .______� Llbr1ry .Additions School of Law. . cauldron of activity. of movement, The University's Mendel Got­ A number or special projects are and. perpetual motion. He was a; tesman Library, also on the Main .also on the University's list or man or striking-sometimesstartling · Campus, has had . its exterior majc.,r repairs, including the in­ contradictions." Dr. Lamm called A Travelling Jewish facade- rehabilitated and . has been s\allation or a DedicatoryWall for · Rabbi Gon,lick an "lsh Ha '�mts," water-proofed. In addition,· the the institution's " majdr · �­ a man of unshakcable.int.rity. l� nterior or the library was repain­ tributors, such as Benefactors, "Two great Talmidei Chachamim Theatre :'''ted and lighting fixtun,s have been Guardians, and Master Builders: have departed from us and have installed. The Science Hall, which and the refurbishing or such public left this Yeshiva impoverished and When the first great waves of or racial identity by rewriting I houses the Uni versity's placesas the admissions, registrars, bereaved," Dr.Lamm said . "But Eastern European immigrants history. and dean's offices to make them they will not only not be fo rgotten, began arriving on American shores Both types of narrative - the more attractive to visitors. but they will continue to excercise at the end or the last century, the history and the myth - attempt to their healthy influence on all or ideal of the "melting pot" society p E.PARE fOR· The renovation project follows tell us who we are by explaining R \; several years of which the Univer­ us." was challenged by another vision where we've been, and both may . \;M�l . \\l sity could afford to do little but of America, one which saw this therefore be used as potent liM country as transnational. But the political tools. But the myth and C 1 . \\�1 . \;\\l PS�\',\\ the most basic repair work, a DISKETTES M � � situation that exacerbated FOR SALE! history or this transcultural vision the story, by drawing upon \; M�1 . p\',�1 . \\\', 1 problems that required immediate has been an unsteady one. resevoirs of human consciousness \\l B\O . � SeeBria n Shoken For second and third generation below the level of waking life, � . U\Hl. SS�1 . PS 1 attention. In addition, facilities �1 � built two or three decadesago now M302 Americans, the problem has not define selfllood in a more univer­ \', \l�lMlN1S . \',1 have to accomodate a growing 928-1689 been the preservation of values and sal, less temporally-bound, S�1 . � \\ • Permanent community of students, scholars, customs from the Old World; these language then that used by Centersopen days, values and customs have been historians who restrict themselves evenings and wNkends • Low hourly cost.•Dedicated lull-time largely lost in the general ac­ to observing changes in the locus ataff• CompleteTEST•N-TAPE� qu ienscence to · Hollywood, of power. facilitiesfor revieW of classlessons McDonalds and Coca-Cola. As A Travelling Jewish Theatre and supplementary materials • CoulNItaught bY.skilled instruc• children of parents who went recreates the legends and tales of tors • Opportunity to make up through World War 11, as sur­ Jewish tradition by story-telling, missed lessons • Voluminous home-study materials constantly vivors of television culture, and as by songs, by chanting, and through updated by researchersexpert in beneficiaries of the boom years masks, and by extraordinarily theirfield • Opportunityto transfer between 1950 and 1970, this impressive acting. These legends to andcontinue at study any of our over120 cent ers. generation has become assimilated, already exist in the realm of the S homogenous America. Our fantastjc; already they speak to the Hl soM\O M\00"\. M problem, as a generation, has been audience's collective, unconscious M�P . t. f\.O . NOO . E.CftllG . to recognize that the breaking memory. But we do not experience fM{;E.MS RN . CGfNS down of ethnic and qultural them as we would experiena: them B . MC\.O· NP\\ . NC f.A�NG identities that has left us without a in a book. . svU.D R · spiritual a:nter: we are cultural cP" R�\� Albert Greenberg, a member of N1E.NSNl exiles. ATJT. explained the group's E.S\. \ LAW sc\tt)(l. ()OOC1\0N 10 It was with a consciousness of method as an attempt to exploit \N1R such spiritual exile that a Travell­ the specific psychology of the ing Jewish Theatrewas established. theatre experience. When people The company is seeking to walk into a theatre. he said. they preserve more than Jewish cultural "suspend their belief systems: they EDUCATIONAL values: they are attempting to totallv identifv with an action CENTERLTD discover the process by which happening on· the stage." The Visit Any Of Our Centers values themselves are created. And See for Yourself Why company attempts to create a kind WtMake The OiUerence They are not only trying to of dreamscapc. "The things that TEST PREPARATIONSPECIALISTS recreate Jewish culture, but to are happening on stage do not SINCE 1938 create culture itself in a country move as we sce reality moving. Call Days, Evenings & Weekends which has lost the ability to do so. And yet the thrcads arc there. 131 Wnt 56thStreet The subject matter of its plays is We're not total!,· arhitrarv in our N.V. C. 10019 not history, nol "the past as is it choices. althou�•h someiime we (Between6 & 7 Aves.) actually happened," but stories, onlv discover la,lcr whv wc did a 212-977-8200 myths. legends, and fairy tales. cert.ain thing. \\'c t�· lo stay Permanent Centers In More Than There is esc other forms of conscious of our choices and lo 120 Major U.S. Cities & Abroad narrative. But granted the dif­ keep the threads to11cther. For Information About Other Centers ficulties of hetwcen them. ATJT's A AT.IT will he putting on a OUTSIDE N. Y. STATE CALL emphasis on myth and legend lccturc-ckrnonstra tion in Lamport TOLLFREE 800·223•1782 clearly distinguishes if fromtheatre Auditorium November JO. Spon­ groups which seek to create ethnic sored hy YCSC ,tnd YCSC. I . THECOMMINTATOa w...... ,. No....., 2, ·- Modem Hospitality With Manet Display_ OpenTQ Public -..Old World Cuisine a, JOEL P.COHEN The French painllr Edouard displayed, ia a laqe'lbowin1 of hi• lhowl a•piction orftantreali1111 S,«1,,1 t• TIii c...,,,,.,,,, I I Manet. the father of irn­ plants and �rie•. - towardl the world. Thi■like other Thee days a 1ood dairyrellaurant with reaaonableprices i1 hardto preaionilm, i1 the subject . of a · paintin1s by Manet arequite free . find.They tenet to either beon thelevel of cheapdinen or charp uif major retro1pective- at the The Balcony, 1861-69, ii a · of social atire, and ne,lectl,tbe theyare Rrving filet ntin1on. Metropofitan Maum -of Art. · paintina of one of bil favorite .conventiona,Icompo■ition s IIICd by Fonunately, fa ns or 1ood dairy cuiline now have a plaeewhere they Like ota.r aeminal artilll. • the women, Berthe Morilot. She i1 , his predeee■onlike Delacroixand can enjoy a substantial, 11tilf'yin1 mal with�ut substantially · importance of Manetp1 beyond shown superbly atrona and bfiabt; · iean-Au1u1t-Dominiq• lnpe1. · li1htenin1 their wallets. / . titheintrinlic quality or llilpailltin1. thecompan ion to herleft noneha1 All in all, the Manet show i■ a HersheyDairy Restaurant at 167 W27th street is a new restaurant His work anticipa� so much to -of her sharp focus. Many Manet · ,triumph .. a brilliantc!on junction or which combines the best of modern facilitiea with old world come, 11 his treatmentof tbeput, womenhave a wiltfulne■ thatmay scholarship and curatorial hoapitality. The rood is · good and the portions are aenerous. The was capturedparticularly lreah. He owe some.thif18 to Wattau. In intelligence with tbc work of an service. too, is wdl abow averqe. The food is out fast, and the borrowed brazenly from the old "ThePlum", • youna woman sill exceptional artist." . · waiten are unobtrusive and 10 vinually unnoticed. m11tm, u if his way of lookin1 alone with ber'bra ndied plum and It is what institution• like the The atmosphere is one of quiet elqance with unhurrieddinif18 and back, a blendin1 or 'homage. and a ci1arettc. Her facial expre111ion · Met •� for. ample time fo r conversation. · sacriledp, wu part of wh,t it · Location is also a big plus fo r- this restaurant. Only a few short meant to be modem. blocks from Stern College,it is easily ac:cessible by train, foot and car. Among hi• key paintinp to be and i1 an ideal place fo r a d.ate. seen · are: a Bar at the Folies • All in all, l,wholeheartedly recommend Hershey Dairy Restaurant Berpre', the Railroad, and·Olym­ as a wonderful placeto take your familyand friends for all occasions. pia. Included in the 190 works Hmltr.v Dairy Rtstauront is undtr dit suptrvisiori of Clulf K. · Decline In Enrollment (ContlllWd from Pogt 2, _Col. JJ President's Commislion concluded. the· elimination one by one of the feel that if they are removed the that our citisns tend to be too languages; and a college without other disciplines will be safe. But smug in refusing to learn other languages is, for sood reason. if, after the excision, the enroll­ peoples' languaps. regarded as much weakerthan one ment docs not increasedramatical­ Historically, while not the with langua,e1. Yeshiva College ly there will be other hostages, for greatest, cenainly an important .. has desrvedly an ellcellent reputa­ thereis a domino theory operating contribution of the Jew has been . t ion among graduate and in academia as in roreign ar­ that of the literate man ·in a a of professional schools. Why? One fai n.We must not forgetthat there illiteracy (e.g. the· European Mid• major reason is that our standards will always be other colleges that die Ages) and of the polY1ot, have remained high. If our gdal is .- will water down theirrequi rements translator and intem,ediary in a excellence, we mustic. uo . t i1 Aff.,.al IN St.. even mocethan yeshiva. Moreover, world of cuhural isolation (e.g. What, then, can be done when Gresham's Law operates in Islamic Spain, modem Europe). our school has become, in effect, •••• academia 11it does in economics: · How sad· it would be to for most students a three-year· bad apples drive out good apples. promulgllte adescent of the Jewish colle,c? In the first place, despite \ As our curriculum is weakened, tradition of internationalist learn• • all their difficulties, our students the better students will seek to 10 ing down to the deplorable. levels have mana,ed to fulrlll rcquire­ elsewhere, and the mediocre stu­ of American jingoistic isolation! menis and to take a full major dents wiJI find other colleges that True,_the welcome creation of the (and even, in a number or cases, a are still le• demanding. Jewish State has eliminated some double .major). For fields such as collegiate . crossword Is it not ironic that at a time of the motivation fo r this historic accounting, where . there are un­ when oral communication is more role or perennial outsider. But it usually onerous requirements for 7 8 . 9 imponant than ever. ·bef9re, would be sadly ironicif therise or the major, we should have a 8.S. whether it i•s in interviews ror the State·of Israel were seen as a dca,ee. . ln other ca•s-of individual idmisaion to profcllional schools justification for the rie · or an hardship, we have the machinery, ,._,-+--t�+--­ or in tryingto influenceour fellow inward-looking Jew with no in• in the' fo rm of a faculty committee Jews to follow in the path or the terest in coming to experience on aca•mic standards, or a forum Torah (after all, we "•ll our­ other cultures directlY. through a to which the student may appeal lelves" with our speech), we knowlecfse of their lan1uages, for and· where he will receive sym­ should bethinkin1 or dropping the it is only throush a knowledge or pathetic . ,atten tion. As speech requirement?Is it not ironic languages that one can truly H.L.Mencken .put it so well, 11For that when the President's Commis­ experience other people's cultural every complex problem there i1 a sion has called ror tou1hening point of view. simple solution. An.d it is always college requirements, and when What will be the resuh of wrong." The complex ptoblem or �h institutions as Yale, Stanford, deleting the foreign languqe Yeshiva's enrollment will not be New York Univenity, Connecticut requirement? Students will now resolwdby thecultural sacrilege of Cofte,e, Georgetown, . Duke, have more electives, but will 'they scrrymandering the requirements Swarthmore, Lehigh, and Colaate choose languqes? Experienoe at that we ex� as well educated have restored a foreian lanau•ae institutions · where the fo reign men. We Orthodox Jews, who requirement, we are thinking of· language requirement has been honor tradition, must continue to dropping it? We may alao note removed shows that there is a require the highest sta11dards or • that the Great Lakes Colle,es marked dedine in enrollment. ounclves, not merely in the realm A1sociation, which includes among Students. especially under the of Torah, but also in the realmof it1 twelve member col�ges such pressure of preparing for Mada-a· curriculum that has institutions as Oberlin, Ohio professional schools, wry often pro�n its soundness in preparing Wcayan, Kenyon, an,d Antioch, electcourses that have a reputation our students. for positions or hu announced that its member for little work and high grades. lcadenhip and eminence. colleps will show preference in Languages are pnerally resarded Loldl ff, FeNmaa admiaions to high school students as requiringhar d work and steady . ProflllOI' of CIUiia C)Eclwlrd Jul ius, 1983 who haw demonstratedcompete1 - application (one must come to 49 Nip 1bbrevtltton 18 The bottOII - ce in a second lan1ua1e. Even the class very regularly).. Lan guqe Curriculum ACROSS New York City Board of Educa­ tcachcn traditionally beliew, in• 50 Coap1n1 btgwtg 19 O.K. Corral (Continutd from Pogt I, Col. 5} 1 P1l1ozotc, Neso• (1bbr.) p1rttctp1nt tion has announced that beginning the words or Hesiod, that fo r the zotc, etc. . 51 Al leviate 24 Houses, tn in 1985 it will add a year's study of achievement of excellence the pre­ dents from having the t'eeling that 5 car1cc1ssor news y 55 Chelltcal catalyst tterwostllo lang1,111e to its requirements fo r requisite is sweat. It is only . later they are - to some extent • 10 Soviet 1gency 59 EDP equt ...nt 25 Reproductive orpn 14 Function (2 wets.) 26 1961 b11ebll1 MVP sraduation. (speak to our alumni) that they controlling their own education!' 15 P1renthet1c1l 61 Subject of the 27 Fa,,.r's concern The argument that with the reali& the value or wliat they were "It is my viewof requirements," c-nt aovte, "Thell" 28 Prefix for 1111r1l elimination of the foreign langua,e required to take. At the -un­ the Dean continued, "that roughly 16 Jat - -- 62 South lllllrtcan 29 ExtrtMly pale requirement, Yelhiva students will dergraduate collc,e which I atten­ one-third of the credits rtquired 17 Principle of an1•1 30 Seashore struc• . 1con1111tcs ( 3 wets.) 63 HOIII - tures • still have a foreian laf18uaae ded, Trinity College in Hanford, for graduation . should include 20 Provide evtdtnce 64 Nearly 111 31 Brilliance of requirement, namelyin Hebrew, is the removal or the requirtment required councs, one-third should 21 ·With 60-Down, house 65 Ltke SOIII bre1kf1st success not valid. President Belkin, Z"L resulted_in a full SO% decline in include free electives, and one­ pet foods 32 Bridle 1ttactaent (do westill remember him), always language enrollments. Such a third be devoted to the student's 22· - vol ta (once, 66 Mah-Jongg ptece 37 Unsel ftsh person insisted.that for us Hebrew must major." The Dean said of the tn mustc) 39 Astron1ut . decline would mean the climina-· 23 Suffix for diction DOWN 45 "L'-, c'est 11111" always be regarded as a natiw, not tion or several, if not most, or our curriculum proposal that he has or honor 46 Prefix for •ni1c a fo reign language. This is crucial courses in languqcs; and even if "some expectation that it will be 24 Pro■issory note, 1 Fonnerly, fol'llllrly 47 China's "Great - to our philosophy. Moreowr, we we are assured that courses will more nearly approximate than the e.g. (2 wds.) 2 llebluchee forward" 33 Ms, Girdner 3 Europe1n range 48 Cultured ■tlk must also stress that an important not be cancelled because or small current set of requirtments, which 34 sea eagles 4 Deviated - ' 51 Econointst·S mith benefitderived from the study of a enrollments, in a financial pinch cat up about half the credits at 35 French risort 5 Traveler on foot 52 -•Japanese War fo reign language and literature is there is no guarantee, as we Yeshiva College." He refused to 36 Poet Teasdal'e 6 Brtttsh phrase 53 B11 ko and York / thebroa deninsor one's perspective recently witnessed, that such a comment as tQ which proposals 38 Novel ist Ph111p and 7 Wrestling maneuver (abbr.) actress L11111n ij Actor Byrnes, 54 First name 1n jazz beyond one's own cultural con­ policy would be maintained. Both were being discu�sed by the · 40 Type of restaurant, et al . 55 Site of 1960 fines. This is especially necessary the Middle States Association of committ�. for short 9 Phone again Olympics for us as Americans, who tend Colleges and Schools (in 1969)and 41 Seed covering 10 1957 movie, "- 56 Toilet case toward provincialism. The world Phi Beta Kappa (in denying our 42 - school the Bachelor" 57 Ms . Carter CHARLIE'S 43 Was a candidate 11 Winglike parts 58 Subject of Kilmer has expanded, and a well-educated application for a charter) 44 EDP personnel 12 - soucl poem person must be able to reach criticized, among other fa ctors, our Movln1 Company (2 wds .) 13 Beef quantity r, o See 21-Across beyond his immediate borders. inadequate offerings and stallings Mot1t You Anywl,ere Answers on Page 8, Col. 4 Indeed, one reason for America's in fo reign languages. In a school of,­ From D11sk Till Dawn decline or prestige is, as the only 800 students we may expect Weuetay, No,ember 2, 1983 • THE COMMENTATOR Pqe II Wruble Wins. AND MORE NEWS ... Tennis Tourney Confident FJimen By LARRY LEHMAN The Independent At�letics Con­ Looking Strong WHAT'S AFTER SAN JUAN? fe rence annual tennis tournament . was held thisyear at Stevens Tech. By STUIE SIMON Lapp brothers, and Jack Nuszen by PHILLIP MACHLIN Four schoolsattended the tourna­ the team hopes to enjoy a winning ment and six players from each· The large turnout atthe first day season. New recruits include Eric The fate of the former site of San Juan car service is still school participated. The colleges of practice shows great promisefor Cohen, Joel Plecter, Steven undecided. involved we� Yeshiva, Stevens the Ellmen's fu ture. This year's Socolof, Caleb Freedman, David The property, which is now under the ownership of Yeshiva Tech, New York Maritime, and freshmen recruits will hopefully fill Noble, and Brian Sand who will University, has been vacant for over a year, and the Yeshiva NJIT. The tournament was the gap left by last year's augment the team's power in College Senate . has asked the Student Council to "study seperated into both an "A" and graduates, enabling the Yeshiva diverse weight classes. 0 "B" division. The top ranked three wrestlers to look forward to a Coaches Neil Ellmcn, Nathan proposals for the future use of the premises , according to Jeff players from tach team we� more promising season. Schwitzcr, and Robert Marcus are Katz, · YCSC president. . .. , placed in the "A" division while This year's team will be led by veryexcited about this year's team. "We would have liked to open a bookstore at that location ; the 4, S, and 6 seeds were placed in captains David Genet (Senior) and With the aid of managers Barry he said, "but we have not been able to find interest�d the "B" division. Stuart Simon (Sophomore). With Bender and Aaron Moishe Roth, customers." He added that some of t.he City's major stores In the "A" division Larry the assistance of veterans Moish the coaches arc prepared to drive . Lehman lost his quarterfinalmatch Kranzler, Pesach Kremen, the the team to its fu llest potential. including Bari;ies and Noble and B. Dalton, were approached: 7-6, 6-1, while captain Avrumi However, he said, all attempts proved unsuccessful. President Markowitz, in the semifinals, Katz also discounted rumors that the store space would be succumbed to an exceptional used to house a branch of the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational opponent, the winner of the "A" Returning Taubermen division, 6-1, 6-1. Center." Those reports are false," he said. In the "B" division Eric Will Be Key To Coming Season "As of now, YCSC has no practical way of using the vacant Hcrschmann upset his first round space," he added. All suggestions regarding the future use of opponent 7-6, 3-6, 6-1 with the the store, he said, should be directed to the Student Co�ncil. perfection of his top spin lob and By KEITH D. RHINE Berlin and Senior Laurent _ brilliant net play. He then advan­ This year's Taubermen, coached Wrzonski. ced to the semifinals whe� he by Stanislav Bardakh al)d assisted The Foil team will be lead by faced Gary Wruble, also from by Seymon Brover and Professor team captain David Mond and a Yeshiva. Mr. Wruble's powerful Arthur Tauber look fo rward to whole corps of returning serve and passing shots enabled continuing their winning tradition veterans.including Marc Bessler, him to defeat Mr. Hcrschmann 6- against an array of formidable Noah Katz, and Ralph Grosz. 2, 6-2. in the other semifinalmatch opponents. The Epec team will have a Beryl Thomas defeated his oppo­ Once again the Sabre team will difficult time trying to recover nent 7-6, 1-6, 6-4, afterbeing down lead the Taubermcn. Returning from the loss of last years captain 4-0 in the third set. That placed top fencers from last year will be and top Epee man, David Feit. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Wruble in heavily depended upon onceagain Picking up the slack will be the the championship match, where this year. Seniors Danny Zanger, Senior Alan Stadtmaucr and Mr. Wruble narrowly triumphed 8- Stuie Berger, Keith Rhine, and Juniors Howie Friedman, Jeffrey 6. Gary Wruble a newcomer to Junior Mendel Balk should allow Kern, and Yaakov Brafman. We this year's team was the first the Sabre team to continue in its hope the Epee team will continue Yeshiva student to ever win the winning ways. Also helping the to improve and help the Tauber­ tournament. Sabre team will be Sophomore Bill men to another winning season. Answers to Fonier siteor Sa■ Juan on the comer or 186th St. •• Amsterda;.. Tennis Team Hoping Quiz For Winning Record New _Faculty Special BloodDri ve. I: A: Comiskey Park, Chicago. Successfu l On May 16, 1969, Epstein the By A VRUMI MARKOWITZ with starters Baruch (7-0) Weins­ . Promotions Washington Senators' first After last year's superlative tein and Larry Lehman. With the • baseman, hit home runs in the first performance (6· 1 ), The Tennis loss of last year's senior members, and sixth innings off Sammy Ellis. Maccabees are faced with the Neil Tilson and Eli Shulman, the By JAY BARBALA team will be turning to Beryl By BRUCE MOSENKIS . In the seventh inning he hit his ultimate question - can they go all . Oct 17 A supplementary blood eighth home run of the season off the.lVaf?After suffering their only Thomas and a new hopeful, Gary Three members of the Yeshiva drive was held today in an 01lcac faculty wcre prom�ted Wilbur Wood. The White Sox defeat last year in the cham­ Wruble, to give depth and strength f American Red Cross bloodmobile defeated the Senators, 7-6. Epstein pionship match against undefeated to the starting line-up. With their rom the status O r associate parked outside the Morgenstern professor to that �r full-time hit 30 home runs during this Steven's Tech, the Maccabees sights set on the future, a number professor. The three tnclude Dr. Dormitory. Yeshiva College season. 2: A:Bill Lee of the believe that a divisional title is well of talented younger classmcn have An�ony S. Beu�as, Dr. Aaron traditionally sponsors a blood Chicago Cubs. On July 11, 1939, within their grasp. Much of last joined this year's squad. Under the Levine and Dr. Edward Levy. drive in December and May. in the fo urth inning, the Detroit year's team is back this year to guidance of Coach Ray Garfinkle However, because New York City Tigers' first. baseman singled and take another crack at the title. these young hopefuls should be Dr. Beukas, a profc�or. �r is currently experiencing a shortage Speech and Drama, r_ccea�cd hH scored as the American League Captains A vrumi Markowitz and able to carry on the Maccabee's of blood, a supplementary blood defeated the National League, at Michael Taragin are back along tradition of success. �.F.A. from Yale Unaversaty �nd drive was scheduled. has P.H.D. �t N.Y.U. Dr. Le�me, Yankee Stadium. 3-1. 3: A:Joe The goal of the blood drive wa Ginsberg. On May IS, 1952, in the •� economics professor, received to collect fo rty pints of blood. his M.A. and P.H.D. from N.Y,{!, bottom of the ninth inning, Vic and Dr. Levy, who earned has Fortunately, this goal was sur­ Wertz' two-out home run ended a . passed and by the end of the scoreless tie. Trucks and the M.F.A . . at _Yale and has Ed.D. . at Columbia, 1s a professor ofmu sic. campaign a total of 61 pints wa Detroit Tigers defeated the received. Washington Senars, 1-0. Bob Porterfield, who gave up fourhits, HERSHEY DAIR Y Wa nt to make good money teaching Judaism was the losing pitcher. 4: A:Ed RESTA lJRANT or tutoring youngsters fo r Bar Mitzvah? Lopat. On July 23, 1950, in the second inning. Rogovin, the Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner Call ABG Tutoring Detroit Tigers' pitcher, hit a grand slam homer scoring Hoot Evers, Monday • Thursday 6 a.m. - 8 p.m. (212) 362-7074 Don Kolloway and Bob Swift. Leave name and phone number Rogovin left the game in the sixth Friday until 2:30 p.m. or send resume with references and qualifications to: inning. The Tigers came from 270 West 89th St., N.Y., N.Y. 10024 behind, scoring two runs in the - Centrally located -_ ninth inning, to defeat the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. 3 blocks from Madison Square Garden 6-5. Rogovin won the American - COME AND HEAR ERA title in 1951. 7 blocks from Stern College NEIL SIMON Parking on street after 6 p.m. America's most popular playwright and I 0% discount to all Y. U. students! DR. WILLIAM BERKOWITZ Any Time! Dialogue Forum Moderator in the DIALOGUE FORUM SERIES 167 West 29th Street on Monday night, Nov. 21st, 8:30 p.m. (212) 868-6988 at TOWN HALL, 129 West 43rd St. Under Orthodox Rabbinical Supervision t:\ (362-5959) � iii Free and Op en To All. Shomer Shabbos Don 't miss Yehuda Blum, Israel's V.N. Ambassador ;,, Dialogue at Tnw11 Hail, Dec. 5th, 8:30 p.m. SPORTS PREVIEW Pqel2 THE COMMENTATOR , Wednesday, No,ember2, 191.1 Hockey lniramu,als; Sc>ccer MACS · Lose InOpener I By RUSSEL ADLER home team scored twice more in them momentum·for thenext few Great Start · Staten Island (5-1) rolled to their the first half to open up a 3-0 minutes; but it failed to produce By RONNIE GROSS 5th coneecutive victory and in the halftime lead, a half which was so another goal. Prosper Abitbol, a Monday niaht Oct. 24th, was the victory .for the Junion. with B-Z process left Yellhivi's soc:ccr team. one-sided that Yeshiva failed to standout oflenseman from France, opener of the hockey intramural Smilchensky and Paul Ratzker with their most lopsided lost, 7-1, �ven manage a shot on goal. turned in a gutsy performance. 1ea10n. Thestrons offensiveJunior . each scorins a hat trick. in the team's short three )'Car Staten Island continued the on- After injuring himldlf in tho first team, with the addition of Paul On Tucllday nisht tbe defending history. Staten Island dominated slaught in the second half, when half in a rough collision, he came Ratzkcr and soaltcndcr Lance ,champion Seniors took on the throu1hout the match as they they tallied four more goals. back to help the team , in the Leifer jumped out to a fut start. Freshmen and. wem very-suprieed constantly applied · pressure to Although Yeshiva scored only second half. The Sophomores, who lost mostof at the Freshmen's high· quality of Yeshiva's defensc.· They opened one goal, they di� it in a bis way. Theproblems began forYes hiva last year's team, were totally · play. One notable factor was the scoring about fifteen minutes With about fifteen minutes left in before the game e\lCn-started. Dr. outplayed. The close of the first rookie goaltender Stuie Mor­ into the game when one of their the game Captain Abraham Tauber decided that the team's period found the Juniors ahead 4- duchowitz (Duke) who repeatedly· offenscmen struck down the left Borenstein passed to Benoy player-coach Hamid Mizrachi, 0. In the11CCOnd period the Juniors stole goals · from the highly sideline. He then paad to one of Fusman, who sent a nice crossing should not play sinoe he is not a extended their lead to 7-1. The experienced Senior offensive line. his teammates, who was standing pass to this year's new Colombian full-time student. Mr. Mizrachi, all alone in front of the goal, for Freshman sensation, David Freyle. last year's Coaches Award .the score, beating Yeshiva's goalie Freyle went by threeStaten Island recipient, was sorely missed on Russel Adler to the left side, The defenders before rifting · the ball defense. In a world full of reports past the goalie, into the left side of · of dishonest university teams, at the net for a beautiful goal. The · least Yeshiva still plays by the • Can The goal sparked up Yeshiva, giving rules. MACS- Win? Cross ·Country Team By SHABSI SCHREIER The Maccabees will open the Runs In First Meet 1983-84 campaign in a couple of weeks with a completely different By HOWARD SONNENBLICK time. roster except for .two returnees, On October 19th under •sunny The team was led by Michael HIiiei Hy.ian faces offa1alnt Arf TudlllU Captain Shabsi Schreier and ,uard skies at the beautiful campu� 9f Taragin and Howie Sonnenblick lone Sophomoie goal was scored the Seniors were ahead by a score Ronnie Schwartz. Joining the Drew Uni\lCnity, eight YC stu­ who clocked in at 34:08 and 34:15 by captain Hillel Hyman. The of 3-2 when Stuie Weinbe11cr put Macs this year are SenionMic hael dents . m�de history by par­ respectively. ·Congrahllations to Sophomores could not organize in thewinning goal on a blastfrom Taragin, VCSC President Jeff ticipating in YU's first cross Steven Katz, · Marc Stock, Eric . country meet ever. The event was Henchmann, Ian Landow, and their play and even the usually the blue line. The Freshman came • Katz, and Eric Henchmann. All steady goalie, Ronnie Gross was · back strong but fell short,losing to are veteran intramuralplayers and the· annual IAC cross country Sammy Kliaer who all ran _a fine shaky. The game ended in a 12·1 theSenion 4-3. 'should see much time playing for champonships which wu hosted· race. Special congratulations goes the! Macs. this year by Drew; For years YU to Chaim Nordlicht who ran far Another player who might have hu been a member . of the better than anyone's expectations. Two From· Yeshiva an impact on this )'Car's team is Independent · Athletics Confen=nc:e Professor Tauber