2008 Woodie Awards
Wednesday, November 5, marked the first meeting of the President's Circle (PC) for this academic year. David Himber, the University Dean of Students at Yeshiva University, was in attendance alongside student leaders of various campus organizations. The Stern College for Women (SCW) students present at the meeting were Sivan Kerem, president of SCW Student Council; Olivia Wiznitzer, editor-in-chief of The Observer; Adira Lautman, president of Torah Activities Council and Arianne Thaler, president of Sy Syms School of Business (SSSB) student council on the Beren Campus.
The Yeshiva University women's soccer team set a new record on November 12 with their 9-0 shutout over Polytechnic Institute of New York University, the first win in two seasons for the team, as well as the first win in the history of the soccer team at Stern College for Women (SCW).
On a brisk, chilly Sunday morning in Washington Heights, over 800 people gathered at Yeshiva University's (YU) Wilf Campus for a yom iyun [day of Torah learning] in Tanakh. The November 2nd event focused on the study of "Controversial Figures in Tanakh," with presentations by various faculty members of YU.
November 19th at the Beren Campus drew a large crowd for the first of a set of two town hall meetings for the 2008-2009 academic year. The meetings featured back-and-forth discussion with Yeshiva University (YU) President Richard Joel. The town hall meeting was held in the Yagoda Commons and was opened by Dean of Students Dr.
On November 5, the hallways of the undergraduate colleges of Yeshiva University (YU) featured a jumble of people in varied moods. A population deeply concerned for two crisis-fraught countries, Stern College for Women (SCW) and Yeshiva College (YC) students had invested an intense emotional and political interest in the results of the 2008 presidential election.
The Torah Leadership Network (TLN) began its semiannual learning sessions on November 6, hosting a few hundred high school girls from the metropolitan New York area for a shiur on the Beren Campus. TLN is an evening of Torah learning that is facilitated by the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) and is coordinated this year by Ariella Azaraf, a senior at Stern College for Women (SCW).
On Wednesday, October 29, students and faculty of Stern College for Women (SCW) convened for a night of close poetry reading, paying special homage to Frank O'Hara and his compatriots of the New York School of poetry. In the 1950s and '60s, the New York School of poetry flourished as an avant-garde movement of abstract expressionism and artistic experimentation.
On November 12, registration opened for the Internet game GoCrossCampus (available at GoCrossCampus.com) on the Wilf and Beren campuses. The multi-team game is sponsored by the Office of Communications and Public Affairs (OCPA) at Yeshiva University (YU). Registration for the game remained open for three days afterwards, and the game began on the 17th of November.