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Official Undergraduate Newspaper of Yeshiva College February 28, 1995/ 28 Adar I 5755 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NY Volume LIX, No. 9 Premier Philosopher and Chemistry Laureate to Lecture Next Year BY STEVEN MIODOWNIK AND EZRA TUCHMAN Lecturing at YC and Sternin the fall semester will be two nationally acclaimed scholars: Dr. Roald Hoffman, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chem istry, and Professor Robert Nozick, one of the premier phi losophers in the United States. They will be joining the YU fac ulty as Gottesman Distin guished Visiting Lecturers.The two, who were hired without prior consultation with their respective departments, are Faculty and Administration Meet Renowned philosopher nevertheless being warmly re Professor Robert Nozick ceived by faculty members. to Resolve MYP Credit Debate In addition to filling those plicants for those positions, temporary positions, Vice Pres some are angry they were not Israel Credit Reduction Reported to be Part of the Solution ident for Academic Affairs Dr. includedin the recruitment pro William Schwartz is currently cess for Hoffman and Nozick. BY MEIR ZEITCHIK mented YC Associate Dean Yeshiva College faculty" to dis headingthe search fortwo more They see the administration as Michael Hecht, who attended cuss the issue. professors to assume perma rushing to acquire a big name In a February 22 meeting the meeting. While Hecht de The proposal, as noted by nent positions in the chemistry without first inquiring if the attended by prominent mem clined to specifically outline · Hecht,is intended to appeal to and philosophy departments. person behind that name pos bers of both the YU and MYP any proposal, The Commenta all parties. The MYP adminis The search aims to fill the posi sesses genuine teachingability. faculty and administration but tor has learned that this solu tration is clearly pleased, as they tions of Dr. Irving Borowitz, Others, like Rabbi Shalom Car not by any student represen tion involves mandating shi will attain their long-awaited who is retiring at the end of this my of the philosophy depart tative, significant steps were ur credit in exchange for a re goal of mandatory shiur credit. semester after twenty-six years ment and Dr. Lea Blau, a chem taken to achieve a resolution duction of Israel credits. Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, the in the chemistry department, istry professor, were simply on the issue of mandatory sh According to Hecht, the talks MYP dean, in factbegan to at and of philosophy professor concerned that the standard iur credit. The meeting saw will now proceed with meet tempt to gather students sup Yitzchak Miller, who died sud protocolof notifyingfaculty was participating members take a ings to be convened by the Ac port forthe idea, visiting vari denly last year shortly after be ignored. definite direction in reaching ademic Standards Committee, ous shiurim last week. "We've ing hired. Dr. Schwartz admits that a solution appealing to all. "To which he chairs, and the Curric done a lot this year with the there was "pressure" to quickly my mind, a possible solution ulum Committee, chaired by addition of theshoalim u' meish Faculty Concerned Over procure talent for the Gottes was reached which has ele Bible professor Dr. Moshe Bern ivim and all of that," noted Rab Hiring Process man Program for Academic ments all three constituencies, stein. Bernsteinalso noted that bi Charlop to one MYP shiur, While YC faculty members Excellence, but he assured The YC, MYP, and students will there will also soon be a meet "but we'd like to do more," are involved in reviewing ap Commentator that Hoffman's find very beneficial," com- ing attended by a "long list of continued on page 15 plications and interviewing ap- continued 011 page 11 YU Attorneys Meet With Student Press Over Cardozo Gay Issue BY OWEN CYRULNIK the only three YU schools to an educational institution. The publish a student newspaper. statute provides for a religious Student journalists fromYe The purpose of the meeting was exemption to this requirement, shiva University schools met to allow the attorneysto present but only if the institutic,nclaim this past Friday with represen the legal issues to the students, ing exemption meets two dis tatives of Weil, Gotschal, & while serving the dual purpose tinct criteria. The firstis that the Manges, the firm representing of attempting to present a con institution be defined as a reli YU over the controversy sur vincing case that YU could not gious institution, and the sec rounding the gay club at Car benefit from a legal battle in this ond that the institution can dozo. Present were University area. show that providing equal ac Achdtis'Str�ssedat Dorm Talks this Dean of Students Efrem Nul The two attorneysfrom Weil, cess to the group in question past W�dnesday night. man, whose office organized the Gotschal, Philip Rosen and Ri would fly in the face of the reli Page4 meeting, along with University chard Davis, began their legal gious purpose of the institution. Vice President for Business Af analysis by examining a New In other words, YU would have AnticipatingDean Adler's Arrival York City statute which pro to prove both that it is a reli fairs Sheldon Socol. Incoming YC Dean Norman Adler readying Student representativeswere vides that certain "protected" gious institution, and that pro present from Yeshiva College, groups must be provided with viding office space to a gay club himselfforhis March 20 investiture. SCW, and Cardozo Law School, equal access to facilities within co11ti1111ed 011 page 12 Page6 February 8,2 1995 p...:..:a g:::..:...e ...;:_2 ---------IQ!\e atnmmentatorl ---------------------------, � Whose Awards? Congratulations to Samson Fine, Ziv Mendelsohn, and Professor Mor 'at�e <t!emmentatnr dechai Cohen on their respective victories in the Senior Awards balloting which took place nearly two weeks ago. 500 West 185th Street,Ne w York, NY 10033, Telephone and Fax: (212) 740-2155. Unfortunately, the whole election process was a sham. Published bi-weekly during the academic year by the Yeshiva College Student Council. Signs publicizing the nomination process - simply recommending any The views expressed in these columns are those of the writers alone and do not one desired - went up one week before the election; those announcing the necessarily reflectthe opinions of The Commentator, the student body, the faculty,or the time and location of the voting were posted 24 hours in advance. Moreover, AdministrationofYeshiva University. We do not endorse any of the products or services rather than placing the elections in MorgensternHall, the unofficial senior advertisedin these pages. Copyright 1995 TheCommentator. dormitory, the Canvassing Committee placed the election in Rubin Hall MOSHE I. KINDERLEHRER during club hour, when very few seniors were likely to have anywhere Editor-in-Chief close. The result of all this? 46 members of a class of well over 200 voted in the election. SIDNEY A. SINGER It seems particularly ironic that an umbrella student council which so OWEN L. CYRULNIK Executive Editor SANDOR J. BAK capably advertised longer pool hours and increased van service fell so Layout Editor RYAN S. KARBEN short on this old tradition. Rather than allow the award process to perpet News Editors uate its longtime reputation as unmeaningful, the Canvassing Committee and YCSC should have seized the opportunity to make the entire process ARI HIRT ELY KRONENBERG LARRY STERN credible. Features Editor Copy Editor Business Manager They should start right now, with the first step to declare the farce of two Thursdays ago invalid. Choose a date for a new election, publicize it well, ASSOCIATE EDITORS and then attack the ridiculous nomination process. Why should they allow News Steven Miodownik, Nicholas Muzio, Meir Zeitchik someone who has done absolutely nothing the chance to win awards based Features Josh Fine, David Schertz on service to YU and the Jewish community, respectively? Nominees Copy Carl Hochhauser,J.D. Schulman should have to meet at least a simple requirement, if nothing more than a Research Dov Simons submission by their nominatorsof one paragraph listing their credentials. Photography IanStein, Daniel Gordon, Jason Buskin, Paul Horowitz � Such information, when verified by the Canvassing Committee, could then Art Moshe Stern,Daniel Sentell, Aton Holzer � be given out to voters, since surely that committee recognizes the possibil- Sports Steven Kupferman,Daniel Wolfson � ity of voting seniors not recognizing all the names on the ballot. Technical Josh Feldman i.........._; We do not aim to strip Ziv and Samson of their awards, and in fact, we endorse their "re-election." We just want the senior class to elect them. ADVERTISING.MANAGER SPORTS EDITORS Ehud Fried David Goldenberg,Adam Melzer A� Speakers, Anyone?? STAFF WRITERS DISTRIBUTIONMANAGER Josh Englard, Andrew Davidson, StuartMilstein David Gladstone In recent years, Bob Dole, Colin Powell, Dan Quayle, Mikhail Gor NathanLamm bachev, and Jack Kemp have comprised the list of marquee names who have spoken under the YU ceremonial bunting. But few undergraduates Member: have ever been affordedthe opportunity to hear these prominentnational Associated AMERICAN JEWISH and internationalspeakers at dinners costing $500 a plate. While the upper II•• • Collegiate •1� \\ PRESS ASSOCIA- • Press TION administration, YU Board members included, faces few problems in '-�"-_{if 41,ot'" landing the big catch for its black-tie fundraisers, when it comes to the undergraduate schools, they feed us slim pickings. Oneonly has to read the newspapers of any major college or university to see that such prominent speakers are regular guests at other schools. For -LETTER - YC students, on the other hand, almost two years have passed since a major To the Editor S figure (Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin) has visited our campus. We do not disagree with our University's desire to attractwell-known personalities to help it fillseats, and in tum, raise money at theannual Remember Fifth-Floor Muss? dinner.Yet we resent the complete lack of effort to bring speakers of similar prestige to our campus during the academic year.