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I've never been good at goodbyes. As a nine-year-old, I used to go to Girl Guide camp and fight back tears after two days of arts and crafts came to a close. When relatives or friends from distant lands stayed at my house for a week, I would wander around their empty rooms, red-eyed and sniffling, after they departed.…
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Lessons I Uncovered Beneath the Haitian Rubble
Like millions of people around the world, I have been following the tragedy
in Haiti since the earthquake jolted the country just over a month ago.
Although the media portrays a great deal of the devastation that has been
visited on this poorest of Western nations, it wasn't until I traveled to
Haiti on a humanitarian relief mission that I truly understood just how
severe the crisis really was.…
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Hebrew Language Conference Comes to Stern
This July 6-8, the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH), will commence for its annual conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture at Stern College for Women. The conference, to be held in Stanton Hall, is co-sponsored by SCW and the Center of Israel Studies of Yeshiva University.…
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Students at Scientific Conferences
Drawn to science by the excitement of discovery, many undergraduate science majors find the coursework and accompanying research experiences to be more routine than exhilarating. The thrill of cutting-edge techniques or fascinating tidbits of knowledge quickly dissipates when faced with pages of organic reactions or physics equations.…
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Giving a Face to Mental Illness
On Monday,10 May, Yeshiva University's Active Minds chapter will host an event titled "Giving a Face to Mental Illness," where a panel of current YU students will discuss their experiences of living with mental illness. The event will take place at 8:30 PM in Furst Hall, room 501.…
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Parting Ways with the PlazaDecreasing number of students on campus takes a toll on the Independent Housing Program (IHP).
Lexington Plaza, an Independent Housing Program (IHP) residence located at 184 Lexington Avenue, will not be available for student housing next semester, as of a March 18th decision made by the Student Affairs and Facilities Management committees.
The decision to downsize on the IHP -which provides additional housing for students on campus -was due to financial considerations, said Rachel Kraut, director of Residence Life.…
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On Remaking and Translating "Culture"
Most American remakes reach final production because someone hypothesized that the original could be improved. The latest "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) is a good example of that, where both Disney and its audience thought Tim Burton could give the tale a truer, more sinister reading.…
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If You're Not in the Freezer, Why Aren't You on the Market?The Semiotics of Shidduchim
I'll start by declaring that I wholeheartedly believe in the shidduch system and that my critique is not of the system itself, but of the language employed by many of its facilitators and participants.
With that disclaimer out of the way, here goes. This semester, I am taking an English Literature class on semiotics, which, specifically in the context of language, is the examination of what words signify.…
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