tOffi cial C!totnmtnUndergraduate Newspaper of Yeshivatato (:ollege r VOL. XCVII· YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1983 YU Board Finalizes Tuition Hike; YC Will Cost $5,680 Annually COMMENTATOR EDITORSSLAP By YOEL MOSKOWITZ OBSERVER WITH LIBEL SUIT The Y.U. Board of Trustees ha• In dollar terms, that is a rise from Apr. 20 - The Oh.ferver. was served with a summons tonight, initiating a $1,000libel lawsuit by the approved a 12.5% increase in the already hip $6634annually, to editors of The Commentator. The suit, which was filed on March 24th in New York County Civil tuition effective October 1983 for S7200 annually, starting nextyear. Court, comes in response to a March 23rd Observereditorial entitled, "Commentator AbusesIts Power all the Y.U. schools - Yeshiva Mr. Neade, Director of the College,Albert Einstein College of N.Y.U. Budset office, attributes With Strategically Placed Typos." Medicine, and Benjamin Cardozo these rises to hisher fuel, energy The complaint in the lawsuit said, "We regret very much having be felt by Tht Commtnatator for a School of Law. The cost in dollars and maintenance costs. Asked charges that · "The Ohurvtr to take such severe action. long time.'' . for the Y .C •. student tuition will what he thought of Y.U.'s 12% editorial... is a malicious accusation However, the circumstances The spokesman added that while rise from SS,OSO to SS,680 per increase, he replied, .. I'm not which is in reckless disregard of demanded an expression of the reliable sources indicated that the year. surprised, it's like this. all over the the truth. This · unproven and editors' coll�ctive outrage at Tht editorial was proposed and ad­ The tuition rise, which · stems · country." slanderous defamation o( the Observer. The editorial, while vocated by only one member of largely from· higher costs of repairs Mi�s Judy Paiken, Director of newspaper's integrity has caused accusing The Commtntator of The Ob.ttrvtr Executive Board, the and maintenance and in higher Admissions, noted that compared irreparable damage to the reputa­ "undermining the credibility of the lawsuit was filed against the entire staff salaries, will be met with a to other universities, Y.U. has tion of the publication as a whole undergraduate �ublications ..." · Board, "for they arc all equal 2½% rise in scholarships. This dela yea the tuition rise for - a J and, to the individual editors in violates every sacred tenet of partners if they did not oppose the should help those students who . number of years. This caused the particular." The editorial alleged journalistic integrity, by printing propogation of this slander.'' receive scholarships to still main­ relatively large increase at this that the typos were "strategically · allegations that arc totally un­ To win a libel suit, according to tain the cost of their tuition. But as time. Miss Paiken, however, feels placed in certain articles, substantiated. The editorial arrives a 1964 Supreme Court decision one administration source who that the increase will not affect presumably with the intention of at its inane conclusion without ( New York Time.f vs. Sullivan), a requestccl anonymity said,.. 2 ½% is Yeshiva's enrollment. "You have making those columns sound citing the slightest shred of public official must prove: that an not 12 1/2% and all it means is that to unde·rstand,'' she said, "Years asbsurd." evidence. The economic repercus- article about him was published in the wealthier students wiil be ago, Y.U. had a low tuition, and A spokesman for The sions of this attack are only reckless disregard for the truth, or covering costs for lower income the increases weresmall, now they Commentator's Governing Board · beginning to be felt now and will (Continued on Pa�e 2, Col. 4) students." Furthermore, the source had to make a larger increase, to pointed out that even with the · catch up on the previous years." Hon. Geula Cohen, Knesset Member, Speaks At YU; 21/2% rise in scholarships, lower Miss Paiken also remains op­ income students will have to pay timistic, because so far, there has Topics Of Discussion. Include Israel's Future more, even though they will be been a 4% increase in enrollment By HOWARDT. KONIG receiving more� at Yeshiva College. Nevertheless, Yeshiva University Mr. Jack Nussbaum, Directorof April 18 - Hon. Geula Cohen, of the Yeshiva University Israeli Yamit. Ms. Cohen believes that does not stand alone in this Y.U. Student Finance, shares Miss a member of the "Techiyah" party Affairs Committee, gave a brief with politics the way it is now, this dilemma. In a Commentator survey Paiken's optimism. Mr. Nuss&aum of the Israeli Knesset, spoke to· introduction, informing the problem will not repeat itself. of tuition costs conducted last' stated that the finance office will - a room full of students this audience of some of Ms. Cohen's week in private universities within · try and meet lhe needs of all evening, The students gathered in more important endeavors. Before Early Fight for Freedom the tri-statc area, Y.U. still students.as indicated by the third SOI Furst Hall to hear Ms. Cohen Israel ever existed, she fought for In speaking to the Y.U. stu­ remainedon� of themore inexpen­ patty, impartial body of .the speak concerning_ .her beliefs on its establishment in the dents, Ms. Cohen brought out a sive Institutions. New York Scholarship office. Other Ad­ Israel and its futu�. , · ..LechV'against · the British. In story which has given her courage University, for example, sawa 14% ministration representatives such -The event· .started after Ms. 1973, she entered the "Knesset" in and inspiration in a hope that increase this year and will have as Dr. I. Miller were unavailable Cohen entered to a standing the "Cherut" party. She later left those at Y.U. would also be another increase of 8. .S% next year. for comment. ovation. Phil Machlin, the director this party and started her own, the inspired. The story takes place in "Techiyah", on a dispute concern­ 1946 after Ms. Cohen was taken to ing the Camp David Accords, court to be punisht:d for being 1·0.ric f·u111cs /11 .\'cience flail .\laJ· which she was against. involved in an underground radio in the fight against the British · J Polltlcal View Mandate. / ose Ilea/th lla-:.artl 1·0 .\'tutlents She began by outlining that her She and her colleagues did not party may be small, but plays an defend themselves with lawyers but Tht Commtntator has learned equipped with 'blast walls', orilynear accident in the room. On important role. Ms. Cohen was instead "we accused the judges." that the University is now in the designed to withstand the impact another occasion, a University later to state that if the four On this occasion, Ms. Cohen had process of correcting possible of an explosion, contains chemicals maintenance man entered B-09 to Knesset members associated given a political speech to the safety hazards in Science Hall, The and other supplies left over from drill holes in the wall. Despite with her would leave the coalition, court outlining her fightto possess problems center primarily around the now defunct Belfer Graduate being warned about the danger of then the government would her homeland. This · speech, the chemical storasc room in the School of Science, which closed sparks from the drill, the workm_an probably fall. · Continuing, she however, is not what brings the building's basement, and the space down in 1976. Last spring, the persisted, claiming that he only explained what happened with the great inspiration. rentedto outside scientificresearch New York City Bomb Squad was needed to drill three little holes. It peace treaty controversy. "I went At the end of the trial, the judge concerns in the building's upper called in to remove a container of was only after being told, "By the to a desert in a political point of stood up and sentenced her to nine floors. crystalized . isopropyl ether (a time you finish the first hole, view as well as a physical one.'' years in prison, although she was Bomb Squd Visit chemical which is entirely safe in they'll be no more building left," Thereby, she went to Sinai to join to escape in a year and a half. -"I The· storage room, room B-09, is its liquid form, but becomes highly that the workman backed down. the struggle. _for the settlement of (Continued on Page 7, Col. 4) located in the tunnel linking explosive in its crystaline form). Science Hall to Rubin Hall, Although the incident involving Noxious Fumes adjacent to the loading platform the Bomb Squad seems to have The fumes in B-09 are so · and bakery area of Parker's prompted the. University to begin.. noxious. that passers-by in the $250,000 In Rare Books cafeteria. The room, specially cleaning up B-09, it was not the tunnel connecting Rubin to Scien­ ce Hall often comment about the foul stench. A Yeshiva College Stolen From YU Library student who worked for the By MARK LEFKOVJTZ Chemistry Department on the The Commentator has learned accurate list of what was taken can Wor�-Study Program during the that a former staff member of the never be pr.:pared. Yeshiva summer claimed that, "The room Y.µ. Library was arrested on University has not yet decided is overstocked with old bottles and April 7th on charges of grand whether to press charges. containers that leak. The ventila­ larceny, second degree. Both Dr. Baum (Dean of the tion system is simply not adequate, The charges were filed in New Y.U.