A New Year

 The Office of Student Services has emerged from last year’s procedural scandals with a new, albeit familiar, staff. We applaud the administration’s courageous effort to restore student trust in this office, the vital liaison between the administration and the student body. We wonder, however, whether the new staff will remain stuck enforcing old policies. Better yet, we wonder whether they will remain complacent at running an office without any policy...

Summer Home for the Handicapped
by Joe Hirsch

Pay a quick visit to Camp HASC, and you’d probably conclude that it resembles every other sleep-away camp in the mountains.  The well-kept grounds and neat rows of bunkhouses seem standard enough.  The dining room, with its wide interior and stucco siding, could easily pass for another camp’s rec center.  And the indoor pool, tucked away at the edge of campus, measures six feet, just like other pools of its kind...

MIT vs. YU: The Search for Community
by Avi Robinson

 The temple of science looms before me as I step out of the car each morning. Joining the crowds, I purposefully ascend its marble staircase and pass through its Ionic colonnade into a domed, sky-lit atrium. I glance briefly at the inscription encircling the walls, three stories above, which identifies the ritual of worship for this majestic edifice: “Established for Advancement and Development of Science, its Application to Industry, the Arts, Agriculture, and Commerce. Charter MDCCCLXI.” Thousands of students and professors walk through this main entrance to MIT each day. Yet I am the only one who does so while clutching a gemara...      

Spacing Out

It isn’t just your imagination telling you that the Belfer Hall elevators are getting more crowded each year, or that the din in the beis medrash is now drowning out your chavrusa’s voice. As survey courses now routinely overtally into the forties or higher, and enrollment in the largest MYP shiurim approaches 100 students, the Wilf Campus’s space problem has finally pushed itself into our frontal vision. Unless the Yeshiva administration makes long-term decisions to accommodate our growing population, 2002-3 will be the final year in which the Wilf campus enjoys a record enrollment...