The Commentator

Union Protests By Yeshiva Commentator Staff This past Friday, the Asbestos, Lead and Hazardous Waste Laborers’ Local 78 brought a new pet home for Yeshiva students to play with. A fifteen-foot rat, placed first at the corner of 185th Street and Audubon Avenue, and then directly in front of Furst Hall, was inflated by the union Constitutional Convention To Convene Ariel Brandwein Yeshiva undergraduate men may soon witness emendations to the institution’s forty-year-old constitution, a document that students can presently unearth in an appendix to the Guide to the Perplexed.... Tuition Raised by 9% Yehuda Kraut In keeping with what has become a prevailing trend at Yeshiva in recent years, the University’s Board of Trustees voted to raise undergraduate tuition and expenses, once again, effective September 2001.... Holbrooke To Keynote Commencement Ariel Brandwein Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Richard C. Holbrooke will deliver the keynote address to Yeshiva’s graduating class of 2001 at the University’s 70th Annual Commencement Exercises. Holbrooke’s address will come at a historic ceremony witnessing the first undergraduate scheduled to address a Commencement audience in over a decade.... Dorm Talks Reinitiated After Lengthy Hiatus Yehoshua Levine YC Seniors to Select Valedictorian Shai Barnea Yom Ha'Atzmaut Program Draws Record-Breaking Turnout Yehuda Shmidman YC Adds New Courses Ariel Brandwein Adler and Staff Garner High Marks Ariel Brandwein Students Keynote Yom Hashoah Program Commentator Staff Lamm Delivers Belkin Memorial Shiur Simcha Goldstein Arsonists Target Neighborhood Shul Dovid Rosen Graduate School Rankings Bring Mixed Reviews Yehuda Shmidman Questions Surround Professor of the Year Elections Mark Srulowitz Chief Rabbi of Israel Visits Yeshiva Shlomo Greenwald Brown Out at SSSB Shai Barnea