Word: oven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...what Ignatiev will not "tolerate." He tolerates the existence of the oven--he hasn't tried to torch it and he wants to remain in the house where it is used. Most who charge him with intolerance say that if he had his wish, it would be more difficult for kosher students to eat at Dunster. In this sense, it would seem, he does not "tolerate" kosher students...
...wish now only that the University not subsidize the kosher oven. Having to procure private funds for the toaster means that the University does nothing special to make culturally specific eating at Harvard easier for kosher students. For Ignatiev, the principle of secularism is more important than the convenience of students who choose to follow kosher rules...
...toaster controversy as part of a long-standing disregard for house protocol. And Ignatiev's remarks have been perceived as insensitive by a number of Jewish students in Dunster who adhere to kosher laws--namely, those who have reported silly threats from Ignatiev about putting ham in the oven...
Finally, it is important to realize that the purchase of the kosher toaster was legitimate even on secular, egalitarian grounds. Jewish students pay the same amount for their food as everyone else; one toaster oven and a little bit of kosher food will not even begin to compensate them for the amount of money they waste each year eating tuna fish in the dining hall...