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...inboxes of Harvard first-years last week contained two mass e-mail messages about this holiday season. One, from the Freshman Dean's Office, reminded us that we are not allowed to light Hannukah menorahs anywhere in the dorms except at specially authorized Hillel candle-lighting ceremonies in common rooms. The other, from the dorms manager, listed regulations for Christmas trees, Christmas lights and other seasonal decorations...
Jewish students are supposed to be satisfied that they can attend public menorah lightings at a different time each evening in freshman dorms and upperclass houses. Hillel is doing what it can to provide us with Hannukah as we knew it at home, but once again, Harvard is dictating how we observe our holidays. It started with the first-year move-in being scheduled on the two days of Rosh Hashanah (or should I say Rosh Hashanah being scheduled on first-year move-in?). The families of Jewish first-years--300 or 400 in all--had to attempt to welcome...
Members of an informal student group called the Queer Resistance Front filled the steps of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel last night to protest the Second Annual Conservative "Coming Out" dinner, which was being held upstairs...
...protesting the appropriation of 'coming out' by conservatives on this campus, mainly because it is insidious to draw a comparison between coming out as a homosexual and as a Republican," said Michael K.T. Tan '01, who demonstrated outside of Hillel before dinner began...
Although the dinner took place at Hiller, that organization's chair, Michael A. Kay '01, said the event did not "represent the views of Hillel or of the Harvard Jewish community as a whole...