Word: sukkahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take this sentence: "The Mideast political turmoil has led some critics of Israel to express their views by vandalizing sukkashs." It is a classic of faculty logic that works something like this: some anti-Semites in America have recently desecrated sukkahs: other Americans have recently criticized Israel; therefore, the sukkah-desecrators must be "critics of Israel" and the critics of Israel must sympathize with the sukkah-desecrators...
...piece entitled "Grin and Beirut" in which the Review stated, supposedly sarcastically, that a Jewish sukkah set up at Dartmouth would not be removed until "a new Jewish dormitory" was built on the Connecticut River. Two days after the piece appeared, the sukkah was destroyed by vandals...
...attributed to an inappropriate use of satiric form. Occasionally the satiric style is inappropriate because outsiders to the College, among whom must be numbered the alumni (at least in relation to many college trends) are not sure whether an article is to be taken seriously (the article about the sukkah is an example of this). More often though, satire is inappropriate because it could not be made to work well in a particular instance. The Review claims "We believe in the horselaugh as a weapon against pipsqueaks in power," and it acts on this belief with satires ranging from...
There may yet be some light at the end of this tunnel. In its first issue this year, the Review, under new management, expressed its "regret" about the affirmative action piece and similar articles. Perhaps the sudden tragedy with the destruction of the sukkah will finally shock the Review into realizing the consequences of its actions. The Review can remain "the most exciting undergraduate newspaper in the country" (its own appraisal) without deicing into inappropriate satire angering fellow students, or dividing the community. A fuller apology would have been preferable, but having apologized, the Review should be given a second...
...Yale, the destruction of a small sukkah was just "undirected, drunken Saturday night vandalism and not anti-Semitic," said Rabbi Laurie Rutenberg, assistant university chaplain...