Volume 66, Issue 12

Three-Day Strike Ends As Members Return to Work Without a Contract By Steven I. Weiss Yeshiva Manhattan campuses’ 1199 membership returned to work without a new contract on Thursday, following a three-day strike.  Members described their return as “a show of good faith” in hopes that negotiations could continue in a favorable manner, though they maintain that they are prepared to strike again if negotiations break down.  Union members suggested that their return to work was intended to avoid the threat of a lockout....

Six of Nine Expelled Students Readmitted Upon Appeal By Pinchas Shapiro After a lengthy and ad hoc appeals process, six of the nine students expelled from Yeshiva University because of the events on and about Wednesday February 27, were readmitted with stained records....

Minister of Education Livnat to Keynote Commencement By Dovid Rosen Sources on the Presidential Search Committee, the body charged with finding suitable candidates to succeed departing Yeshiva President Rabbi Norman Lamm, have revealed that the committee has made the ability to capably direct Yeshiva's finances a primary criterion in potential candidates....

Hiring Freeze Hampers Departments By Joshua Strauss Desks in the offices of Alumni Affairs are idly collecting dust.  Staff is pushed to work seventeen-hour days in Admissions.  These are just two consequences of the many maladies plaguing Yeshiva as a result of the ongoing University-wide hiring freeze....

Advisory Committee Meets as Search Continues By Commentator Staff At the first full meeting since August of the Presidential Advisory Committee, the 50-member body created to draft qualifications for Yeshiva University’s fourth president, Search Committee Chairman Michael Jesselson reported on the progress of the process and announced that there would be more dialogue with the Advisory Committee in coming weeks....