Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Afrer elemenrory school few people in America really celebrate Tu Dshvor. We ' re no longer presented with o bog full of ex- otic fruit We ourselves nnust run off to the grocery ot the lost minute and buy figlets from California In order to be yotse the shehecheyonu No one over thirteen sings Hoshkediyo Porochot ony more. This post Tu D ' shvQt was a cold ond snowy doy. Everyone thought that the only way we would notice the chog would be the much appreciated skipping of tochonun. But in the cofeterio ot lunchtime, omong the shapeless eggplant cutlets and tomato-soaked stews, was a bowl filled with fruit. Here were figs and dotes; here were raisins and nuts; here were sticks of the fruit which looks like pieces of dried rub- ber, which no one sees except on Tu D ' shvat. Shehecheyonu was no problem, and o mood of holiday come to the Yeshivo students Only in on atmosphere of Toroh U ' moda could a schooldoy be so suffused with the special feeling of a chog.

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No college campus is complere wirhour o dromoric society, and YC is forrunore to hove the exciremenr of the Yeshivo College Dromoric Society. The excellence of YCD5 producrions ore lorgely due ro the dedicorion of the ocrors and rhe exrroordinory omounr of rime rhey spend rehearsing. Recently, o group of students hod o strong, burning desire to act. However, they could not put in the time YCDS demanded, because rhey hod previous commitments in the form of night seders and rhe like. So rhe Yeshivo College Jewish Theotre was formed. In the spirit of Judy Gorlond ond Mickey Rooney, they decided to put on o show for the Spring Festival of the Arts at Yeshivo. I con get the fourth floor of rhe library, one of them said. I con get o local butcher store to donote the props we need, said another. The students built the sets, direcred rhe ploy, acted, and organized musicol accomponiment. They didn ' t socrifice any of their time set aside for learning at night. The crowds loved their ploy; and the critics roved. Toroh U ' moda.

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Campus conrroversy is on imporronr aspect of col- lege life. In the weeks before Meir Kohane came to speak here, orgumenrs raged about whether he should be allowed to speak, whether he should hove been in- vited, whether we should react strongly to his coming. The evening he spoke, students formed o moss protest rally, voicing objections not to his presence but to his views. The protest was so strong that Kohone hod fo be slipped in o bock door to ovoid a confrontation with the protesters. The scene could hove been o sixties demonstration against the war in Vietnam. Except for one thing: inside the hall, Kohone defended his radical views with words from haiachic and biblical sources. Outside the protesters waved signs inscribed with psukim in bold letters. The demonstrators song songs of peace and universal understanding, token not from Dylan or Boez but from the words of the Toroh.