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They don't. The students' families have already enlisted superlawyer Nathan Lewin, veteran of 27 arguments before the Supreme Court, including a 1989 case requiring the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., to display a menorah next to its Christmas tree...
...three elements must be present: First, houses should mandate that no religious symbol can be placed in a common space without a word of explanation as to its meaning. What is the symbolism of the Christmas tree? Why does a Kwaanza lamp have seven branches? Why does a Hanukkah menorah have nine? I doubt if anyone (myself included) can answer all three of these questions, despite the fact that all three of these symbols will be seen around campus in the coming weeks. Part of the burden of living in a multireligious community is the responsibility of educating others about...
Sophomore year, with visions of the failed Christmas tree dancing in my head, I settled for just hanging my stockings and a string of chili-pepper red lights, and tried to ignore the holidays. Inspired by the previous year's success, junior year I decided that my roommates' Menorah was holiday decoration enough, and I did not even drag the tired stockings out of storage. I took the Charlie Brown approach to Christmas and deemed it too commercial and not worth all the effort. The season went by quickly and uneventfully...
...house life is certainly no less than that of a coffeehouse, an opera or a drag night. While we hold all of these communal activities (whether art or debauchery) in high esteem, we cannot regard religious observance with a lower degree of honor. Raise the nativity scene. Light the menorah. Celebrate a public Ramadan. Religious students should be encouraged by house masters and the administration to express themselves in this way, and funds within the budgets of house social committees should be made available for such purposes...
...seems that Lewis has allowed his justifiable concern for fire safety precaution to outweigh First Amendment freedoms with the new menorah ban. Precautions must certainly be taken as intermediate steps between an outright ban and absolute laissez faire. But the current policy is hypocritical with respect to the legal use of other potential fire starters in the dorm rooms. The College is wrong to dictate the terms on which Jewish students may light their menorahs. It's time for the College to treat us as adults. Lewis should reverse...