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Then suddenly Noel Ignatiev, a non-resident tutor, a veritable serpent in the new Eden, threatens your single, tiny, $40 toaster oven--the only oven of orthodox observance in any dining hall on campus...
Ignative, a strong believer in secularism, asserts that Harvard funding of a kosher toaster oven is a misuse on Berry's part of what he calls "public funds." He argues that the University is spending money to accommodate a certain religious groups, and thus violating the separation between "church and state" (the state being Harvard, the university founded as a theological seminary...
...discriminatory against individuals,"Ignatiev said. "But [the oven's] use is defined onsectarian grounds. There is nothing in themanufacturer's instructions accompanying thetoaster oven saying that the oven will bedestroyed if someone lays a pork chop...
Ignatiev said that the toaster oven isdifferent in several important respects from otherexamples of University sponsorship ofreligion-linked facilities, such as MemorialChurch...
Students made the argument that the purchase ofthe oven was in line with the University's missionof fostering an integrated community, since itallowed students who keep kosher to eat in theirhouses with friends who do not keep kosher...