Closetators Stolen
by Commentator Staff
March 23, 2010
Only a few hours after distributing the Purim edition of The Commentator, the newspaper’s staff found that hundreds of copies were stolen and thrown out. Ostensibly, this was in reaction to what the perpetrators perceived as an embarrassment of Roshei Yeshiva in the satirical issue. Thus far, three different students have been identified as culprits, two of whom were caught via security tapes.
The administration took disciplinary action against the students in question, with Dean David Himber carrying out judicial hearings for each of them. After the hearings, Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Hershel Schachter went to Dean Himber’s office to express his support for the involved students, even calling their actions mitzvot. He later informed The Commentator that he had done this without actually having seen a copy of The Closetator. Rabbi Schachter was later informed of the precise content of the paper, and was rumored to have retracted his support of the students involved.
These three were not the only ones offended by The Closetator. A group of students attempted to start a protest where the students who study in the Glueck Beit Midrash would abandon the new Center. The idea was that the exodus of students would grab administrators’ attention and cause them to rethink their treatment of the students who were caught.
Many Wilf Campus students have complained vociferously about their colleagues’ actions. “It’s my college’s newspaper. Who’s some random undergraduate to take it away from me?” complained one YC student. “Everyone looks forward to the Purim issue from the start of the year; I’m infuriated that I never got to read it.”
83% of students who responded to this issue’s Student Pulse were in favor of or neutral toward The Closetator.
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