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...SINGLE LETTER written by Noel Ignatiev has developed into a campus-wide controversy. Iganatiev, a non-resident tutor in Dunster House, wrote to the manager of the Dunster dining hall to protest the University's purchase of a toaster oven to used for kosher foods only...
What about "tolerance"? The Liems certainly have not shown much in this incident, and some might charge that Ignatiev himself was being "intolerant." However one feels about the kosher food-only toaster oven, the charge of intolerance seems misplaced...
...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...
...funding the kosher toaster oven, Harvard is forcing all students who use it to engage in a religious observance, says Ignatiev...
Although Ignatiev says he supports the provision of kosher foods in Dunster House, setting the oven aside for kosher use is, he says, unavoidably "a religious observance...