The Commentator
Volume 67, Issue 8
February 12, 2003
Adar I 5763


 
 

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Volume 67, Issue 8

 

Yeshiva Struggles to Apprehend Cheaters
Entire Class Suffers Because of Few
by Kevin A. Cyrulnik

The surge of cheating that has recently plagued Yeshiva has taken a turn for the worse, leaving an entire class of students up in arms.  Pending an investigation into alleged cheating during Professor Mitchell Kellman’s “Money and Banking” final examination, every student in the class received an I, or incomplete, as his final grade.

New Accounting Requirements to be
Instated in the Fall of 2004

by Omid Balakhaneh

Dean Snow Announces Changes in the Accounting DepartmentThe fact that many states have already increased the mandatory number of college credits undergraduates must fulfill in order to be eligible for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) was something students just had to accept. But, the fact that many more states are set to follow suit has precipitated considerable attention.

 

 

IHP Student Injured in Altercation with Local Resident
by Alan Goldsmith

Shortly before the beginning of winter break, a Yeshiva student from St. Louis who lived in an Independent Housing Program (IHP) apartment on 480 West 187th Street suffered an injury to his face after another individual attacked him at the building’s doorway. The student left Yeshiva to return home, and apparently will not return.  This is just the latest in a long list of incidents to occur at that building in recent months.

At the Helm of Yeshiva College: Dean Norman Adler
by Zev Nagel

Dean Norman Adler“It’s not easy being green,” says Yeshiva College Dean Dr. Norman Adler, quoting the legendary Muppet Kermit the Frog to describe the challenge of being Dean of Yeshiva College. Over the past eight years, Adler has taken the reins of arguably America’s most distinctive college, guiding it vigorously on the path to greatness and recognition in the academic community.  Nevertheless, the challenge to maintain an image befitting of Yeshiva continues, and Adler is the one who bears the responsibility for the outcome.

 

 

 

 

Pressure Looms Large for Yeshiva’s Premeds
Medical Schools Covet “Well Rounded” Students

by Jamie Hirsch and Jeremy Mazurek

Yeshiva’s Pre-Health Adviser, Dr. Stefan BosworthWith roughly fifty percent of the 34000 applicants getting accepted to medical schools annually, and with an upturn expected in application numbers, the competition is fierce and only getting tougher. Observing the blank stares and questioning faces of Yeshiva’s premedical population, The Commentator decided to meticulously investigate the premedical discipline in order to arrive at an answer to that all important question: what do medical schools want to see in their applicants?

 


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