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...SINGLE LETTER written by Noel Ignatiev has developed into a campus-wide controversy. Iganatiev, a non-resident tutor in Dunster House, wrote to the manager of the Dunster dining hall to protest the University's purchase of a toaster oven to used for kosher foods only...
Students wrote a flurry of letters defending the toaster and attacking Ignatiev. Dunster held a big meeting to discuss the issue. Some suggested that he was an anti-Semite, a charge that Ignatiev vociferously denied. One person even suggested that Ignatiev physically abuses students who disagree with...
...DUNSTER HOUSE Masters Karel and Hetty Liem, who made the decision on Ignative, have given insufficient reasons for not reappointing him. They say he has not been able "to foster a sense of community and tolerance and to serve as a role model for students...
...tolerates the existence of the oven--he hasn't tried to torch it and he wants to remain in the house where it is used. Most who charge him with intolerance say that if he had his wish, it would be more difficult for kosher students to eat at Dunster. In this sense, it would seem, he does not "tolerate" kosher students...
Regardless of the merits of Ignatiev's arguments, charging them with intolerance is overstated, and saying that their expression makes Ignatiev a poor "role model" for Dunster is equally wrongheaded...