The decision to close MTA was made; the verdict was sealed and done; all that remained was for the axe to drop. The powers that be sat in secluded judgment and reached their conclusion. MTA as a YU high school was history, the only remaining question was would it go independent or merge with another school.

College Progresses, Syms Regresses

With its successful passage of a resolution creating a test bank for Yeshiva College courses, the YC Senate has courageously begun an effort to challenge a time-honored practice of academic delinquency rooted in the very culture of this institution. Mesorah has been the scourge on scholastic integrity at the College for long enough. With the present resolution, equity will prevail where social adeptness once dwelled, hard work will be rewarded in the place of frantic midnight photocopying binges. The Senate is to be commended in the strongest terms for advancing this laudable, if belated, initiative. The College's faculty and administration also deserve credit for putting aside their characteristic partisanship in an effort to pursue what is clearly in the better interests of the academic community over which they preside.

Of Hobgoblins and Small Minds

It never ceases to amaze; it continually boggles the mind. Yet again, machismo and stupidity are the order of the day here at YU. We can only watch in utter wonderment as pointless, mean-spirited acts are carried out by small men with smaller minds.