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...Yale freshman Elisha Hack. When the 20-year-old Orthodox Jew toured a dorm last month, he was aghast to see how closely men and women live together--on separate floors, to be sure, but just a tempting staircase away. The tour guide breezed by the condom stash, labeled "the goods." Finally, Hack ducked out of a required safe-sex seminar complete with demonstrations on dental dams. In short, he says, life at Yale seems to follow a basic dictum: Anything goes. "Exactly the biblical description of Sodom and Gomorrah," he notes...
None of this really surprised Hack. The brother of a Yale grad, he knew the campus was no yeshiva. So he proposed a simple solution: live off campus. Trouble is, like many private colleges, Yale requires frosh to live in those steamy dorms. Administrators say dorms are a crucial part of the education; students learn to cope with one another's differences. "At Yale," says Dean Richard Brodhead, "students live and learn together...
What to do when one student's viewpoint (in this case, Hack's strict ideas about sexual modesty) conflicts with the university's desire to toss all views into an educational blender? Unlike students of yesteryear, who pushed for diversity with scruffy demonstrations on behalf of minorities, Hack and four other Orthodox Jews have chosen a thoroughly contemporary method of attack: mount a p.r. campaign...
...where [Hack] has a problem," said Shalom E. Holtz '99, a leader of the Orthodox minyan, of prayer group, at Hillel...
Holtz said he wrote a letter to Jewish Week press in New York supporting the students soon after reading Hack's article...