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Jerking his thick eyebrows halfway up his forehead, Mike L. Reiss ’81 hastily waved off applause from a crowd at Harvard Hillel yesterday as he stood at the podium. “This is weird,” said Reiss, a writer and producer of ‘The Simpsons.’ “This is not easy for me to come back to the alma mater and give a speech for free.” Reiss roused his audience into laughter with his deadpan jokes, comic timing, and clips from...
...merits of pornography. Their debate will be aired on ABC’s “Nightline” this evening. Sex Week at Yale has increased in popularity every year since Eric. J. Rubenstein began the effort to involve Jewish students in the school’s Hillel in 2002. He came up with the idea of a “Kosher Sex Week,” as an outlet for students and professors to talk about the topic of sex at a religious and spiritual level. Since then, the organizers have taken a different approach to spreading...
...expense of the majority. Closing a facility to undergraduates whose tuition fees have paid for it can be polarizing, so the matter requires a cautious and nuanced approach. There are already several good models for accommodating religion on campus. For Jewish students on campus, kosher dining is available at Hillel. Yet Hillel’s policy differs from the QRAC policy in that it does not exclude other undergraduates—any Christian, Hindu, Sikh, or Muslim may dine in Hillel any night of the week (and many frequently...
...group also hopes to build an Islamic center that would include a mosque and dining area to cater to Muslim students and serve as a resource about Islam for the Harvard community. The building would be similar to existing religious centers, including Hillel and the Catholic Student Center...
...Classical art and archaeology professor David G. Mitten, faculty adviser to HIS of 12 years, said he believes interfaith collaboration underpins the country’s future and proudly cited the organization’s connections with Hillel, the Interfaith Council, and other student religious groups...