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From the Editor's Desk: Shmuli Singer
After suffering the initial annoyance of changing all references to the "Uptown Campus" in this issue of The Commentator to the new and institutionally-mandated "Wilf Campus," I found myself growing to appreciate our locale's new appellation....
From the Editor's Desk: Pinky Shapiro
"You're gonna have to leave your coat and bag outside," ordered the proctor on the fifth floor of Furst Hall in an annoying monotone that indicated the proctor had repeated the request many times, already. Slowly rehearsing the facts that the mesorah notes had said would definitely be on my exam, I dropped my bag, hung my coat, and entered the testing room without thinking twice about the proctor's words....
From the YCSC President, Lou Shapp
How awesome is it that we are the wildest month of the year. And leave it to us to live up to the marbeen be'simcha standards of Adar. This whole month has been and will be a wild roller-coaster. I don't even know where to begin....
From the SSSBSA President, Michael Davis
Time for yet another clichéd beginning... It really is amazing how the time does fly. We are nearly at Purim time and it truly feels as though the semester has just begun. That having been said, we certainly have not been wasting any time....
I. Atribe
Steven I. Weiss
A recent Observer headline declared the lack of feminism at Stern "surprising." This is hardly the case. When no policies or courses seriously address the topic, it's foolish to assume that the student body would somehow divine a feminist ideology....
The Junto: Salt Lake City's Special Olympians
Michael Ganeles
Lost amidst the security concerns and general hoopla generated by the current Olympic Games in Salt Lake City is the simple fact that this Olympiad, like every other convened since 1900, features a politically correct element perhaps unparalleled in any other global venue. It is surely noteworthy, although the fact appears nowhere in the massive advertising campaign launched by NBC to promote the Olympics, that the Games thoroughly empowers a physically disadvantaged minority - whose constituents are neither the world's fastest, strongest, nor best - and affords them the legitimacy of worldwide athletic acclaim....