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The $110 million vanishing act that recently hit the YU endowment is an unfortunate incident which will undoubtedly have ripple effects at Yeshiva and across Wall Street for years to come. And we insist that students -- the ultimate victims of this mess -- be involved in the reorganizing and rebuilding, and that YU release additional information regarding their investment plans and endowment details.
Though experts in education we most certainly are not, punitive measures designed to coerce the student body into taking up learning Torah with earnest and intensity will most certainly fail.
Even the computer science department website isn't immune from YU's informational inertia: four out of six professors listed there no longer teach at Yeshiva College.
Reading "The Commentator" has been, on the whole, a delicious experience, but this past edition soured my taste buds. "Shocked" and "appalled" are words too mild, too bland to describe my anger towards Samuel Balanson's article "Cheaters Shouldn't Prosper" - "spicy Cajun" and "hot, hot, hot!" convey a more accurate sense.
Editor: Kudos to the editors of the Commentator for your strongly principled stand against the racism that reared its head during the election campaign. I was proud to read it, and to share it with concerned Jewish and non-Jewish colleagues across the country.
