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Y e s h i v a U n i v e r s i t y Observer The Official Newspaper of Stern College for Women Turkel Announces Retirement Students Petition to Switch After 37 Years of Service, Devoted Office Brookdale Beit Midrash and Manager Leaves SCW Computer Room By Suzanne Anziska Turkel began working at SCW part- By Alexandra Beard time in 1964, though her hours were later fter 37 years of service, Livia Turkel, increased Her praises are sung loudly . alk into the the Manager in the Stern within the college. One SCW senior fondly Office Brookdale Beit College Dean’s Office, will be retir- recalls Turkel s willingness to constantly go A ’ Midfash on the ing. the extra mile. “Mrs. Turkel was always W second floor and you ll Mrs Turkel pre concerned that things be ’ “ . - notice overflowing ceded me the Dean s done the proper and most in ’ in bookshelves and office and she was my first timely manner, she states. ” sefarim piling onto the teacher, helping me to She was in touch with “ tables and chairs that fill understand how a quality every single issue that was the dorm-sized room. administrative office should going on in Stern, and Walk into the computer be run,” Dean Bacon lauded especially with the needs of room on the first floor Sara Jacobson, an SCW junior, shteiging in the her longtime employee. the student body and facul- and you’ll see a room beit Personally and profession ty. midrash “ - ” twice the size occupied ally, she has had an enor- When considering her by five computers and that the BRH Beit crowded, they feel that mous impact on many stu years at SCW, Turkel remi- - cubicles with desks uti- Midrash be moved to the bookshelves are dents and faculty, and I nisces fondly. “Stern lized for studying. One the computer room, toppling over them and believe all of us at Yeshiva Livia Turkel Will Leave SCW College is a select institu- room is spacious, They already have 100 they can’t move,” owe her a huge debt of grati- After 37 Years tion, a university for ortho- another is crowded, signatures from partici- Tanzer explains. “The tude.” continued on page 16 Should they switch? pants at the TAC fair room is L-shaped like According to and expect more. Once the other BRH rooms, Ariela Tanzer, TAC the petition is filled, they therefore people don’t Maya Angelou to Inaugurate Batei Midrash will present their want to learn there Commissioner and request to the Student because it is too small SCW senior, they Life Committee. and claustrophobic.” Scholar-in-Residence Program should. Tanzer and “I was unhappy Tanzer also Fruma Farkas, an SCW with the Brookdale Beit feels that making the Limited Seating Mandates Complex Distribution System junior, have organized a Midrash and heard switch will be a show of petition for SCW stu- complaints from other 17 dents to sign requesting continued on page By Adina Levine Geraldine Schottenstein students that it is too Cultural Center. s SCW prepares to “The students host the world- wanted someone who is a Rabbi Lamm to Publish Eleventh Arenowned poet and multiethnic individual,” stat- speaker Maya Angelou, a ed Robbins-Wilf, donor of Book Entitled “Seventy Faces” system of tickets has been the program and founding established where faculty member of the SCW board. By Miriam Colton and students must sign up “[Angelou] is very well in the Office of Student known as a multiethnic abbi Norman Lamm’s new 1SCVFNTY Services to receive a ticket poet. We decided to get in book, entitled “Seventy Faces: for the event. As of touch with her, and she Articles of Faith,” is to be pub- I A< ES R . November 11th, 180 stu- agreed to come.” lished in December, to coincide with ? dents, in addition to 54 hon- “This promises to Maya Angelou the upcoming Yeshiva University es < ' ors students, had signed up be an exceptional evening,” Relations. “Then they’ll Chanukah dinner in his honor. The ' ׳ for the performance, which commented Dean Karen open it to YC.” two-volume compendium of Lamm’s falfli will take place on Bacon. “Maya Angelou is a The original plan popular essays and speeches span- Wednesday, November remarkable woman, hailed called for the opening of the ning 35 years, will be distributed to all 28 , at 8 p.m. in the as one of the great voices of event to the public, to inform dinner attendees and then be avail- ^ contemporary literature.” the community of the won- able for sale. In addition derful benefits of Stern “The Gemarah says Shiv’im : to the board mem- College. “The idea was that Panim la’Torah, which really express- NORMA N A MM _ bers attending the es my ideology, the ideology of Torah * the community would get to Sneak preview of the cover of event, any extra Umadda, explained Rabbi Lamm in know the program and that ” “Seventy Faces” seats left over from it would help SCW,” assert- an interview with the Observer. “There SCW students will is latitude in Torah for more than one ed Wilf. “If the community The over 650-page collection consists be offered to YC stu and this event derekh. Seventy’ is a metaphoric - came saw ‘ of ten chapters in two volumes, deal- dents after and to know what SCW number which indicates the breadth of got ing with current Jewish issues, includ- November 19th. Torah but there are limits There are is, they may end up sup- - . ing Modern Orthodoxy, Faith, Morality The SCW admin- seventy, but not seventy one ‘ porting SCW, or they may - .” and the Family, Israel and Zionism and istration wanted to With the encouragement of have children who want to other relevant issues. The essays offer it to SCW stu . those who feared the loss of his - come to the school ” enable the reader to view the progres- dents first because it , acclaimed speeches over the years, However when sion of Lamm’s positions on issues is an SCW program, Rabbi Lamm spent half a year compil ” faced with a decision as to - with which he grappled in service as commented Peter ing and editing sixty of his popular whether to allow more SCW Rabbi of the Jewish Center in Ferrara of Yeshiva and essays continued on page 16 speeches . 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