Leitner Picks Issue

To the Editors:

I am writing in response to a recent article by Aaron Klein entitled "Yeshiva College Arts Festival: Behind The Scenes With Yoni Leitner." For this piece, Klein interviewed me about my experiences filming the Arts Festival. Overall, I think it was a great article and I am truly grateful that Aaron wrote it.

However, in the article, Aaron poses the question, "Was making this video difficult? What did you learn from this experience?" As my response, he writes, "It was very difficult. I had to cut so many scenes out because people were constantly picking their noses in the background! It was so hard to find a scene where someone actually wasn't picking their nose…" While I did say this in passing,, it was taken out of context. What I truly learned from this experience was that there is a surprisingly large number of extremely talented students who would not have had the chance to make themselves known had the Arts Festival not taken place.

I understand that this journalistic mix-up was done innocently and there are no hard feelings. I just hope that next time the editors of this forum will be more careful.

Yoni Leitner

SSSB/JSS '01

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