Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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.

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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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The yearly cycle or Yeshivo is rhe Jewish cycle. Our college doys ore filled wirh Jewish legrnir g and values; our yeshivo doys ore filled wirh rhe (Iberol orrs ond in- volvemenr in Western sociery. The whole atmosphere is sorurored wirh rhe Holocho as o lorke is sorurored wirh oil. If you wonr on ideologicol exominorion of Toroh U ' nnoda, rake a look or Robbi Cormy ' s excellenr Toroh U ' nnadQ reader. If you wonr a mindless gloriflcorion of rhe concepr, YUPP, con provide you wirh sufficient moreriol. If you would like a poetic description, Cynrhio Ozick has a beautiful one in her lorest novel, The Can- nibal Galaxy. But if you wont to understond, or ro remember, how Toroh U ' modo offecrs us srudenrs os we study ot Yeshivo, take o simple look at any aspect of student life. Stop ond consider: this college is not like oil other colleges. There is something very special obour it; wirh oil its foults this ottroction mokes it sometimes irresistoble. That is Toroh U ' modo.