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THIS SPRING, when Dunster House tutor Noel Ignatiev complained about a toaster over reserved for kosher use in the dining hall, a number of Jewish students suggested that his motivations were anti-Semitic. This argument, however, fits under Feldman's definition of what is not "functional...
...could have been offended by the toaster oven controversy, but was not," Feldman says. Rather than argue for the kosher toaster oven, Feldman takes on the foundations of Ignatiev's argument...
Feldman says Ignatiev's attacks on the kosher toaster oven suggest a subtext that "these people have an unreasonable request...
...Ignatiev's inexplicable hostility towards Jewish students' religious observance certainly does not make for a willfull ignorance of the facts notwithstanding. It is this apparent hostility towards student beliefs, not a disagreement with house policy, which should (unfortunately) disqualify Ignatiev from acting as a tutor...
...should note, moreover, that even when fired, Ignatiev will still be able to exercise his right to "publicize opinion by print, sign and voice...