Volume 65, Issue 9

Presidential Search Committee Not Yet Finalized Yeshiva Board Excises Unanimity Clause Annulling RIETS Veto Power Jason Cyrulnik Following the unexpected March 13th announcement of Yeshiva President Norman Lamm's plans to retire, the University's Board of Trustees has been charged with constructing a search process through which a successor will be secured....
Undergraduate to Speak at Commencement Administration Finally Bows to Student Pressure Shmuli Singer For the first time in over a decade, an undergraduate speaker will deliver an address at Yeshiva University's Commencement exercises. Yeshiva Director of Public Relations Peter L. Ferrara facilitated the resolution, which had been the focus of numerous student requests in recent years.
Nissel to Fill Associate Dean of Students Post Dovid Rosen In an initial attempt to fill one of a number of high-level vacancies in the Office of Student Services, Dean of Students David Himber appointed Director of Housing and Psychological Services Dr. Chaim Nissel to the position of Acting University Associate Dean of Students. Though Nissel's appointment satisfies a need extant since Himber left the associate deanship and assumed his current post last year, it necessarily leaves the Student Housing Office empty, complementing a similar void at the slot of Coordinator of Student Services caused by Andrew Leibowitz's resignation last semester.