Volume 66, Issue 3

Confusion Characterizes University Response to Terror Yehuda Kraut As students and faculty at Yeshiva struggled to cope in the immediate aftermath of the devastation wrought by the recent terrorist attack on New York City, it seems that a general lack of direction on the part of the University's administration contributed to the rampant confusion that engulfed both of Yeshiva's undergraduate campuses for the better part of two days.... Jesselson Letter Officially Kicks Off Presidential Search Generic Wording Worries Some in Yeshiva Shmuli Singer Signaling the official beginning of the search process for Yeshiva's new president, a letter from Presidential Search Committee Chairman Michael Jesselson went out at the end of August to Yeshiva alumni, faculty, senior staff and trustees soliciting recommendations and submissions of resumes for the position of successor to Dr. Norman Lamm.... Yeshiva Enrollment at All-Time High Housing, Classroom Shortages Exposed Yehoshua Levine As of Tuesday, September 5, 2001, Yeshiva's undergraduate enrollment totaled 2271 students, the largest student body in the institution's 125-year history. This figure which includes 1274 men and 997 women from Yeshiva College, Stern College, and Sy Syms School of Business represents an unprecedented expansion of the undergraduate programs, dwarfing enrollment projections that the administration had compiled in recent years.... Yeshiva Ranked #41 Pinchas Shapiro For the sixth year in a row, Yeshiva University has been ranked among America's top national universities in US News & World Report's annual college rankings. Yeshiva has also earned top tier honors in a University of Florida survey charting the same group of institutions....