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Many legal experts and religious leaders feel that the Lemon test is at best confusing, at worst unfair, and in any event destined to change. The current challenge has come in the case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. Kiryas Joel is a municipality in upstate New York where virtually all citizens are in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Orthodox Jewry. Kiryas Joel adheres rigidly to Old World dress and ways and maintains a close-knit, Yiddish-speaking community that tries to shield itself from outside influences. TV, movies and even higher education are shunned...
Kiryas Joel says its public school for the handicapped operates in a strictly nonsectarian fashion. Opponents, led by Louis Grumet, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, do not argue that point. But they say Lemon forbids the very existence of a school set up by the & state legislature specifically to help a religious community and perpetuate its life-style. New York's highest court outlawed the school because it creates a "symbolic union" between religion and the state. The Supreme Court last week heard arguments in Kiryas Joel's appeal...
...other business, Chair Michael P. Beys '94 recognized Allan M. Grumet '94-93 as the council's outstanding member of the spring semester. Grumet has served on the reevaluation committee
...With all of the slick stuff that goes on in the Canaday B basement, this might not be a bad idea. But wouldn't the Council do better to create a polling arm to gauge student opinion? Another proposal would move the Council in the opposite direction. Alan M. Grumet '94 proposed, in place of several existing Council committees, a Student Affairs Committee that would have an "information/propaganda" office, as he put it. Sounds like more lousy...
...Grumet said Coop General Manager Alan Powell told him the incident resulted from miscommunication between the store's administration and employees...