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 boys' high school The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy.

Yeshiva College Arts Festival Successfully Staged

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.

SOY Seforim Sale "Most Successful" to Date

This year's SOY Seforim Sale was the most successful ever, measured by profit accumulated, according to its two co-chairmen. The Seforim Sale, a yearly tradition carried out by YU students for the metropolitan Jewish community, began on February 7th and culminated on the 21st. Though confronted by all too typical administrative impediments in the preparatory stages, to the credit of the student coordinators, the Sale ran extremely smoothly.

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