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Official Undergraduatenmmtntat�r Newspaper of Yeshiva College November 25, 1992/ 29 Cheshvan 5753 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NY Volume LVII, No. 5 standard that will comeleft to Tenure Revisions Proposed of tenured faculty members destroy the city" if it is upon the closing of the Belfer unadclressed. The plaintiffsnot Part 2 of a Series on Faculty -- Administration Relations Graduate School of Science. reiterated that they are .,, affiliated with any political by Sender Cohen At YU, tenure is granted on committee that evaluated Dr. the basis of three criteria: [ party or candidate for mayor Horowitz, said that he "doesn't publications, research and other : and that the suit has not been One of the least well-known know specifically why he creative achievements; teaching i� filed to affect next year's . and least understood policies [Horowitz] was denied." effectiveness; and service to the mayoral election. at our university is the one Executive Vice President Dr. university and profession. To � To characterize the suit as a governing tenure. Most Egon Brenner declined to receive tenure, a professor must racist attack on an African students have heard the term, discuss the issue, stating that he be outstanding in two categories American Mayor is but do not understand the "cannot discuss personnel and competent in the third. "inaccurate," claimed Snitow. serious implications it has for matters." Dr. Horowitz stated However, many faculty He further remarked that the the faculty and for their that he too is unsure exactly members noted that in reality, Crown Heights Community has educations. A university's why tenure was denied: "The publication has been repudiated a poster of Mayor tenure policy gives it the division was kind enough to emphasized more than the other by Jonathan Schloss Dinkins that reads "Wanted for opportunity to fosteracademic · send me a copy of the letter they two criteria. murder." While Snitow agrees excellence, reward outstanding sent to the administration; that Despite the importance of that Dinkins is not a murderer, Calling the Crown Heights1 professors, and protect is the extent of my knowledge publication, it is unofficially he believes that it is a "damnable riots a pogrom, Norm n academic freedom. accepted that less quantity is lie" to say that the NYPD could of the decision." YCJunior Eyal Rosenbaum, the brother f The University only awards expected at YU than in many not react to the violence in Feiler expressed amazement at murder victim Yank 1 tenure to full-time appointees other universities due to the Crown Heights for three days. the denial of tenure.as "It seems Rosenbaum, addressed a with the academic rank of unusually heavy teaching load "He [Dinkins] is accountable silly that a teacher good as he, capacity audience of over 6 0 professor, associate professor placed on many professors. and it's not racist to call him is not rewarded for his efforts." students, alumni, faculty, a d or assistant professor. Seven Because of time constraints, accountable for his failure to One professor, who members of the press in t e years of teaching experience is articles in scholarly journals are act." requested anonymity, pointed aftermath of the acquittal f required for tenure, including more .commonplace than For his part, Rosenbaum out that due to YU's censure murder S\!Spect Lemri k monographs and books .. Other � . called t-he riots the "most prior service at other by the American Association of Nelson. Crown Heigh s universities with comparable universities, such as Harvard, repugnant example of Anti UniversityProfessors (AAUP), attorney. Frank Snitow spo]Fe standards. Recently, which impose lighter teaching Semitism ever to confront us a faculty member who is denied prior to Rosenbaum at tl\e Dr. Avery Horowitz, a loads on their professors, .. notwithstanding the lessons tenureisunabletofollowAAUP Monday night lecture, focusi�g professor of economics, was require publication of two of Hitler." He said that his grievance procedures, as is an on the basis for the laws it denied tenure by the University. books before a professor can � outspokenness since Lemrick . accepted option at most other which the Crown Heighfs The reasoning behindthe denial even be appointed to the Nelson's acquittal is solely in universities. Community has filed aga · st is unclear. Dr. Joshua Bacon, a position of tenured associate the interest of justice. Asserting member of the division YU was put under censure New York City. professor. J that the principles of justice are for not complying with AAUP continued on page 11 Snitow stressed that t e rules, whenitreleasedanumber necessary for society to survive, purpose of the lawsuit filed la�t he, therefore, claimed that the arations week against the City of Nek issue at hand is not Jewish MillerObtains Re p York, the New York Poli{e African American relations. Department, the Mayor, a d "Every time the Mayor wants theformer Police Commission r for WWIIVictims g, to divert [attention from the � by the estate of Yank 1 real issue] and is supported by i� · Rosenbaum and the Cro n self-interested, self-elected President of the Conference of celebrations commemorating Heights Jewish Communi y Jewish 'leaders', I'll drag 'em ij Presidents of Major Jewish the 750t.h anniversary of Berlin. Council is to "strip away, o back to that continuedissue [justice] on page .... If9 � Organizations. When the U.S. He accepted on the conditions bare, so that all can see a doub e ,- r , � initiated diplomatic relations that he be granted an audience 0 by Joel Haber with the German Democratic with Hoenecker and be Republic (East Germany), he permitted to visit Buchenwald. Dinner / met with then Secretary of State "I had qualms about going_ 'so) �-. I \' _,.,· / ,...��- i .• Throughthe personalefforts Henry Kissinger and Assistant into Germany. I feel that Jews, 'lo'., I of YU SeniorVice President Dr. Secretary of State forEuropean if they don't have to go to to Honor ► .•� Israel Miller, the German Affairs David Hartman to . Germany, should not go. But if - .it' \ ,, -'. J ,,, £1 i; l- ◄·-•.. • "' governmentrecently signed an discuss. American indifference you go ...you ought to pay � . ,_, J• - ........·. • v �. agreement to compensate to East · Germany's gross tribute t()the kedoshim." Powell an � Jewish Holocaust victims from negligence regarding its. post- · Little was accomplished in I Russia and Eastern Europe. war duties. Miller termed this the negotiations with Herzog r,y Miller, acting as Chairman oversight an "immoral act on Hoenecker. Then,following the of the Conference on Jewish the part ofourcountry." Dueto destruction of the Berlin Wall by Eric M. Creizman honorary doctoral degrees will Material Claims Against his intervention, a paragraph in 1989 and the reunificationof be granted to distinguished Germany, announced the was added into the treaty, thetwoGermanies, Miller again recipients. This will be followed accord on November 6th.· forcing the GDR to agree to approached the State Following its tradition , f by the banquet, which will securing high-profil , Signed in · Bonn, the conversations with the Jewish Department, He met with then feature an address from one of arrangement will benefit those community on a non Secretary of State James Baker influential speakers, the Y the honored guests. The war victims from Communist governmental level. and current Acting Secretary of Hanukkah Dinner will hon r purpose of the Hanukkah countries who were previously Before becoming the Claims State Lawrence Eagleburger, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs� f Dinner is to raise funds for the unable to apply for reparations. Conference Chairman who was then Assistant Staff General Colin Powell, a�cl school, although Zysman The West Germ.an (followingthe death of previous Secretary of State for European Israeli President Chaim Herzdg explained that "most of the government began restitution chairman Nachum Goldman Affairs. They assured him that at a December 20 dinner at t e funds are raised in advance of in 1952, and over 160,000 Jews eight years ago), Miller the U.S. would insist that East elegant Waldorf Astoria hot I the event." still receive monthly payments. accepted, on behalf of the Germany honor their in midtown Manhattan. T e Although someAdministrators The East German government, Conference, · the responsibility obligations to the survivor dinner, which costs $500 p r initially expressed concern that while compensating the few of representing the survivor community. As a result, Article person/$5000 per table, is "t e donations would decrease due Jewish and gentile war victims community in their talks with II was written into the German culminating event of the ye, r to the recession, Zysman on their own territory, never the Germans. Very little Unification Treaty, naming the forthe development of YeshiJa expressed his satisfaction with paid its fair share in the transpired in the following Claims Conference as the University," according to M ( . this year's returns. "We ·are worldwide reparations. years until Miller met with "heirs" to any unclaimed David Zysman, Vice Preside1 t running way ahead of last year I . Miller's actions on behalf of President Hoenecker fouryears communal Jewish property, for Development. in terms of fundraising. We The evening will begin wi�h Jewish Holocaust victims began ago. Miller received an continued on page 11 would havecontinued done better on without page 10 16 years ago when he was invitation to attend the a convocation, at which . I a e 2 November 25, 1992 P____; g�_ _________ m�t, <ITnUlllttufafnrj Presidential Propaganda ---------------------------, Public relations is an important tool forany institution. Good P.R., even when � it creativelyreinterprets the truth, can significantly aid fundraising activities and <!!nmm�ttfatnr augment the good name of an institution. However, the 1991-1992 YU President's m�� .., L..._ Report prepared by President Lamm crosses the line.