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From the Editor's Desk: Shmuli Singer
Yeshiva breathed a collective sigh of relief this month, when the ABC news reporter departed campus, stymied in his attempt to broadcast a lurid story of rape and violence....
From the Editor's Desk: Pinky Shapiro
As I strolled past Time Out on Tuesday, I saw two MTA students wrestling on the sidewalk. The closer that I walked, the clearer my view of the students became and the more real the punches delivered by the burlier of the two seemed....
From the YCSC President, Lou Shapp
There were 2 seminary girls on a bus riding through the streets of Brooklyn. One was named Avigail and the other was named Devorah. In the middle of the ride, Avigail nonchalantly said to Devorah, “Did you hear the news? The latest shidduch in town is so not kedai!" Avigail asked, "Why not? The two of them seem perfect for each other." Avigail answered....
From the SSSBSA President, Michael Davis
Free Wall Street Journals (still)…Bloomberg Terminals (soon)…Syms Talks (More on the way)…Tough Job Market (also still)…Just a little Senioritis (yeah Broseph.)…Blah Blah Blah…All this great stuff and more, still going on, and will continue to for some time to come. However, I feel that people really don’t much feel like hearing about all this anymore, so I won’t write it. Also still true is this little quip that I so oft find myself repeating: The economy is, to say the absolute least, not what it was a few years ago. We are facing an impossibly difficult job market....
I. Atribe
By Steven I. Weiss
Yeshiva’s deep, dark secrets. You hear about them from time to time; I tend to hear about them a lot. If there is anything that you think is worth changing at Yeshiva, somewhere there’s a deep, dark secret that will explain why you are wrong. This is so dumb....
Last week's Junto: Salt Lake City's Special Olympians
By 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....
Response to Last Issue’s Junto
By Amitai Bin-Nun
Sadly to say, I tremendously enjoyed and was amused in the extreme by Michael Ganeles’s openly biased and slanted article (Volume 66 Issue 8, The Junto: Special Olympians). Although articulated well, the theory that women are genetically “predisposed” to athletic inferiority is a completely groundless assumption with no scientific backing ....
Michael Ganeles Responds
By Michael Ganeles
I thank Mr. Bin-Nun for taking the time to craft a response to my article. I am flattered that he found my argument entertaining, and I am sure he will be happy to learn that I found his comments amusing as well....