Volume 67, Issue 1

Presidential Search Committee to Finalize Nominations Within Weeks Selection Process to be Maintained Under New Board Leadership by Yehoshua Levine After four months of careful deliberation and interviewing, the Search Committee for University President Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm’s successor has narrowed its nomination list to three finalists whose names will be submitted to the Executive Council of the Board of Trustees no later than mid October. Blaming the long search on overemphasis on one candidate and tremendously high job expectations for the would-be President, members of the Committee remain optimistic that the 16-month process will soon come to an end...

Yeshiva Enrollment Up Eight Percent Struggle to Accommodate Students Becomes More Desperate by Yair Amsel For the second year in a row, Yeshiva’s undergraduate enrollment reached the highest number it has ever been. As of August 21st, one week before the first day of classes, 2425 students were registered in Yeshiva College, Stern College, and Sy Syms School of Business. This figure – which includes 1365 men and 1060 women from the three schools – represents an unprecedented expansion of the undergraduate programs, dwarfing enrollment projections compiled by the administration in recent years. The 8% increase on the Wilf Campus in particular is exposing serious shortages of housing and classroom space that administrators are scrambling to fill in...

Student Services Undergoes Facelift Nulman Returns After Two-Year Hiatus by Commentator Staff In an effort to restore legitimacy to a severely maligned department, the Office of the Dean of Students has undergone its largest overhaul in recent history.  The restructuring came about largely as a result of vociferous student interest in a carefully defined disciplinary and procedural protocol...

Yeshiva Changes Housing Policy Scope of Ruling Still Undecided by Zack Streit In an unexpected decision that sent shockwaves throughout the undergraduate campuses, Yeshiva’s upper-echelon unilaterally changed Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s long-time housing policy, which had prevented unmarried couples from cohabiting.  The move comes as a result of a 1998 lawsuit filed by two lesbian students, claiming that university housing protocol discriminated illegally in denying housing to homosexual couples....