Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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We returned lo school nexl Seplember — Bui wait, did we? No, we left Washington Heights for a year in Israel. However a number of students stayed behind and actually continued college! What a year those V.C. Sophomores had. Again Yeshiva made the New York Times, this time for the extraordinary achievement of holding an elaborate M A S H Bash, bidding farewell to the 4077. We bid farewell lo another military man, the beloved Colonel Marmorstein, who retired after doing whatever could be done lo keep us secure in the pre-sniper years. The college was censured for the innocuous, totally blameless act of firing a tenured faculty member. There was censure from other sources because of the establishment of the Y.U. cheerleading squad, a group of dedicated Stem women who followed the basketball team around from game lo game. One team member responded to the loud criticism with the memorable quote, The cheerleaders help to ease tension on the busride to the games. No one ever figured that one out.

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Fresbman Year II was a year of change for the institution. A terrible battle raged over restructuring the curriculum. Students greeted the proposal with either: Oh yeh! This here college is going to let us do whatever the heck we want, or this university surely must remember its respon- sibility in espousing the great philosophy of liberal art education. Wurzweiler was about to move uptown, and many faculty members led us to believe that the move would involve ao influx of scantily clad, seductive graduate students ( who turned out to be mainly nuns, male social workers, and middle aged housewives). We were surprised to read in the New York Times that Yeshiva would soon be closing down. We just got here! Was it something we said? The problem was financial and it was remedied by Yeshiva ' ' s appeal to the public for one hundred million dollars. Is that not chutzpah? A rash of muggings descended on Yeshiva students like a plague. Remembering the small amount of the security forces at that time, we are tempted to say (before we think better of it) ' ' ' ' Thank goodness for the sniper!

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