So Clearly You’ve Never Been to Singapore, but Welcome to Yeshiva University

9/23/09 12:51 PM

  If this past summer got you down, and those plans you had in mid-March fell through, leaving you with your TV, your remote, and a bag of potato chips, you really didn’t need to look much further than our very own Wilf campus for the kind of drama bragged about in TNT commercials. A new building to finish, a ‘vacation’ to Singapore, two new deans, and a closed-off street in the middle of Washington Heights were just a few of the atypical revolutions that transpired over the past several months. That’s not to mention a new chair of the Honors Program, the return of a former chair of the Honors Program, and several grant-receiving faculty members who were recently denied tenure.  What truly made the summer so interesting was the overall disparity which...