Word: toaster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...tutor wants to challenge a house policy, he or she has every right to do so. Ignite merely wrote a letter to he Dunster dining hall manager stating his opposition to a University-funded kosher food-only toaster. He even informed the Liems at the time of every step he was taking. Students were drawn into the debate, and the Liems finally agreed to pay for the toaster with their own money...
...fair, the Liems view Ignatiev's action in the 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...
...drive for protection of free expression, the staff ignores what really is at issue in the debate over Noel Ignatiev, the Liems and the kosher toaster...