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The Third Annual Yeshiva College Arts Festival, arranged by students Benjamin Joffe and Benjamin Schiller, took place this month with a series of events that were open to both students and faculty. According to Joffe, the aim of the Festival was to stress the importance of students applying and exercising intellectual and artistic talents outside the classroom, and to promote arts awareness on campus.

Edah Holds Conference

On Sunday and Monday of President's weekend, February 14-15, Edah's first international conference met at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The conference, entitled "Orthodoxy Encounters a Changing World," drew over 1500 attendees from across North America, England, and Israel. Participants came to voice support for Modern Orthodoxy and learn about important issues which it confronts.

Gambling on Campus - You Bet!

Heading home for vacation, most students look forward to seeing their parents, visiting friends, and relaxing. For a growing number of students, though, vacation is a chance to head out in a different direction. For many students, gambling, both on and off campus, has become a popular diversion. This development is worrisome to concerned friends and administrators who fear that the recent trend may develop into something more serious.

Anyone who thought MTA would sit idly by as its future slowly disappeared right before its very eyes appears to have been mistaken. Wednesday, February 17 found hundreds of high school students, administrators, teachers, and even alumni pouring out on 185th Street in organized protest. Unlike many protests designed to target a particular action, this one protested indecisiveness and the absence of a clear response on the part of Yeshiva University in deciding the fate of its affiliated boy's high school The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy.