Word: toasters
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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...
Students wrote a flurry of letters defending the toaster and attacking Ignatiev. Dunster held a big meeting to discuss the issue. Some suggested that he was an anti-Semite, a charge that Ignatiev vociferously denied. One person even suggested that Ignatiev physically abuses students who disagree with...
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...
...introduction of the toaster to the dining hall should have been cause for applause rather than attack, says Fateeva-Berenfeld...
...funding the kosher toaster oven, Harvard is forcing all students who use it to engage in a religious observance, says Ignatiev...