Dear the Editor:

In the past two years that I've enjoyed being on this campus as an undergraduate student, I've had the distinct unpleasurable experience of arriving at campus and finding my dorm lacking an integral utensil of everyday morning use for religious Jews: a cup for Netilat Yedayim.

My first year on campus the cups were in the rooms when we, the incoming students, arrived; the following two the cups were missing.

I wrote letters to The Commentator vainly attempting to enlighten the populace concerning the dire plight of our daily hand-washing tradition; but alas, it seemed that SOY had greater concerns.

While I reside in an outside apartment this year, I still congratulate the board of SOY for returning to the proper custom of supplying the dorm rooms with washing cups, and I hope that this is only a sign of the good things they will accomplish this new year.

G'Mar Chatima Tova to you all.

Hadar Weiss

YC '00