2008 Woodie Awards
After months of litigation, Yeshiva University and former Assistant Professor Wayne Schnatter were ordered to pay $50,000 to the American Chemical Society (ACS). According to the ACS, Schnatter illegally posted two copyrighted ACS examinations on the YU website between May and December, 2002.
"הלוא פרס לרעב לחמך ועניים מרודים תביא בית, כי תראה ערם וכסיתו ומבשרך לא תתעלם" "Surely, you should share your bread with the hungry and welcome the moaning poor into your home; when you see the naked, clothe them and do not conceal yourself from your kin.
Georgia Pollak has been named the new Executive director of University Communications, stepping into the spot vacated by Peter Ferrara. Although she has just arrived in YU, Pollak has shown an understanding of the aims of the institution and the goals of her department.
After a six month period of preliminary legwork and tense deliberations,it appears that the search for a new Dean of Yeshiva College has finally made some progress. The emergence of a favorite candidate had led to hopes of the new Dean assuming the position as early as this January.
As Charles Snow of the Sy Syms School of Business (SSSB) finishes up his last month as dean, his successor has not yet been named. Assistant Dean Ira L. Jaskoll has been appointed interim dean after Snow submitted his resignation at the end of the last academic year. The current hole in the SSSB administration raises questions as to where SSSB is headed in the future.
All first year incoming students will be greeted by a new school policy as they begin the 2005 fall semester. The new policy states that all students must now graduate with twenty Jewish studies credits on their transcript. This should strike a blow to the practice of taking a year off from the Talmudic morning programs of the Mazer Yeshiva Program (MYP) or the Stone Beit Midrash Program (SBMP) to alleviate Jewish studies course requirements in Isaac Breuer College (IBC) courses.
Edward Fox will not be returning this coming academic year to his position as the president's Chief of Staff. He has left Yeshiva University after two years of being the right hand man of President Richard Joel. The President has said that a search for a new Chief of Staff has begun.
Following the conclusion of the previous academic year, the Committee of Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) announced the election of Yeshiva University President Richard Joel to its Board of Trustees. The CICU is a statewide organization of over 100 independent colleges and universities whose members enroll some 440,000 students.
On August 5, swastikas were painted throughout a building in the Yeshiva area, covering the threshold of almost every apartment with a mezuzah on the doorpost. That same day, police took a suspect into custody for the crime, and the suspect confessed, according to the New York Post.
Air-conditioning units - yes, air-conditioning units - lined the second floor of Rubin Hall this past July, to accommodate some of the 28 high school seniors from across North America who attended the new Summer at Y.U. program. A brain-child of Dean Karen Bacon, Dean of Stern College, Summer at Y.
Toffy's Dry Cleaning, Time Out, the phone card store. These merchants who occupy the small strip mall on Amsterdam Avenue between 186th St. and 187th St have been staples on the Wilf Campus for ages. Now though, a Yeshiva landmark is no more - the row of stores frequented by university students has a noticeable hole.
Affirming his desire to increase the scope of Yeshiva University's presence in Israel, Howard M. Weisband, Senior Advisor to President Joel on Israel Affairs, met with Yeshiva students for dinner at his Jerusalem office on Tuesday, August 9th. Weisband serves as director of all of Yeshiva's assets in Israel, including supervision of all administrative personnel and management of the Caroline and Joseph S.
The Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) of Yeshiva University will hold a three-day kickoff called "You Are The Ticket To Our Future" September 12 to 14, featuring fairs at Yeshiva University's (YU) Wilf Campus in Washington Heights and Israel Henry Beren Campus in Midtown Manhattan.