38—Friday, May 10, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Youth News
Scholarship Winner Sets Sights on Israel
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Evelyn Naftalie, daughter of the Fred Naftalies of Winthrop
Ave., accepts the 1967 Sidney Kalt Memorial Scholarship, which
will take her to Israel this summer. Evelyn was unable to go last
summer because of the Arab-Israel conflict. This year, she and the
as-yet-unnamed winner of the 1968 award will share the experience.
Mrs. Kalt makes the presentation to Evelyn while Robert Schlaff
(left), past president of Cong. Beth Abraham, Janice Blau, 1966
winner, and Rabbi Israel I. Halpern_ look on. The scholarship,
sponsored by Beth Abraham, is open to all teen-agers of the con-
gregation, who submit along with their application, an essay on
"Why I Want to Visit Israel." A panel of judges selects the winner.
Inner-City Teens View College Life,
Thanks to Clothier Jack M. Citron
A Detroit clothier is leading a
drive to get more inner-city De-
troit high school students interested
in college.
Jack M. Citron, owner of J. M.
Citron's Men's Wear, has donated
money to cover the expenses for
tours of Wayne State University
by ninth and tenth graders.
Citron has been making dona-
tions for this purpose since the
idea was developed several years
ago.
A teacher at a suburban high
school collaborated with Citron
and Wayne State officials to start
the first tour, and the reports
which the clothier received from
teacher and student alike en-
couraged him to continue.
Teachers informed Citron that
class discipline improved, that the
general student attitude became
more serious in regard to their
studies, marks showed sharp im-
provement and students began to
make inquiry about subjects neces-
sary for college preparation.
Many of the students wrote
reports on their tours of the
Wayne campus and their reac.
tions were passed along to Cit-
ron. He was so impressed with
their responses that he sent
some of them to Vice President
Hubert 11. Humphrey who re-
turned a letter congratulating
Citron on the results.
The program attracted other
contributors and currently is oper-
ating in conjunction with the High-
er Education Opportunities Com-
mittee, a group providing resources
for needy students with college
potential.
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Students of Hillel Day School
will demonstate their projects at
the Annual Science Fair 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the school. The student
body wil view the projects the fol-
lowing afternoon.
Teachers who are guiding the
students in developing their pro-
jects are Mrs. Frances Bloom and
Mrs. Barbara Sachse, elementary
science teachers, and Zina Perl-
man, junior high science teacher.
Judges who will award the prizes
are Dr. Harry Maisel, professor of
anatomy at Wayne State Univer-
sity, Dr. Leora Shelef, food techno-
logist at Wayne State University,
and Mrs. Henry Politzer, teacher
of science in the Berkely School
District. The students participating
in the Science Fair will answer
questions and demonstrate their
proj ects.
Ronald Schreiber, an eighth
grade student, entered his project
in the South Oakland County
Science Fair. His project was
"Nerve Impulses and How They
Travel."
Religious Student on Secular Campus: Tuna Sandiviches
By MORRISON ZACK
We are all concerned about Jew-
ish students who lose their identity
as Jews while in college. But what
problems confront the observant
Jewish student, say, at Wayne
State University?
The first problem which arises
is that of food. The observant Jew
cannot obtain a kosher meal on
campus, with the exception of the
Passover meals prepared by the
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation.
Ezra Roberg, a senior majoring
in English and biology, says that
the biggest difficulty is in obtain-
ing "a basic meal." He generally
brings his meals from home and
buys soft drinks from vending ma-
chines or the cafeteria.
Howard Berris, a sophomore
in pre-dentistry, also brings
lunch from home, but luckily
tuna fish sandwiches are always
available.
"However, it's unfortunate," he
adds, "if the observant Jewish stu-
dent doesn't like tuna fish!"
Another problem faced by the
observant Jew is missed school-
work during the Jewish holidays.
Marilyn Sitron, a senior major-
ing in mathematics, generally in-
forms her instructors that she will
be absent on certain days, and
obtains the assignments from them.
"I've had no difficulty with
this," she adds.
The university has aided matters
greatly by recently adyising all
faculty members of the dates of
the Jewish holidays and requesting
that no exams be given on those
dates.
Most observant Jewish students
hold the position that missing
school during holidays is some-
thing which must be accepted
as a part of being observant.
Sheila Katt, a freshman in pre-
medicine, says "I can't expect the
school to stop the process of edu-
cating others just because I choose
to observe my religious holidays."
Some instructors, however, ap-
parently are still confused about
the Jewish holidays. Marlene Cern,
a senior in elementary education,
says that in those classes with
largely Jewish enrollment, "the in-
structors sometimes don't under-
stand why some of the students
are absent for holidays like Sukkot,
while others are not."
An observation often heard on
campus regarding observant Jew-
ish students is that they tend to
segregate themselves from the
larger Jewish student body.
Rabbi Max Kapustin, Hillel
Foundation director, says that the
statement just isn't true.•
But Marlene says that "there
is a clan of Orthodox students
on campus which gathers in the
university snack bar." Ronne
Kritzer, a junior majoring in
Spanish, finds that "Many of the
observant Jewish students con-
gregate in the Kasle collection
room of the Wayne library."
The observant Jewish student
often faces the problem of home-
work which can be done on Sunday
only, due to observance of the
Sabbath.
"The problem is often compound-
ed by the fact that many instruc-
tors, not realizing that some stu-
dents are unable to write on Satur-
day, "assign more work over the
weekend, believing that students
have two days in which to do it,"
says Marlene.
Employment is often a problem
for the observant Jewish student.
Those students desiring jobs which
will allow observance of the Sab-
bath can sometimes obtain one
with the aid of Rabbi Kapustin.
But the Hillel director says that
the jobs are usually for lower pay
than Saturday jobs.
Marlene applied for a job at the
Detroit Public Library. "I told
them immediately that I would be
unable to work on Saturdays. They
were very cooperative, but they
told me that I would earn less pay
because I would be working fewer
hours."
Hedy Coblentz, a senior in
special education, has been
working "at Frank's Nursery for
a couple of years now, and I've
never had any difficulty about
observing the Sabbath," she
says. _
A problem which often arises for
the observant Jewish student is
that of a conflict between the
teachings of Judaism and those of
courses such as philosophy, biol-
ogy, and geology. These conflicts
usually center around two areas of
thought—the evolution of man and
the creation of the world.
Most students say that the only
thing to do is to learn the scientific
viewpoint for the exams.
"But just because I learn some-
thing for an exam," Marlene adds,
"doesn't necessarily mean that I
believe it."
On the other hand. some students
use the solution suggested by
Hedy: "I can rationalize any con-
flicts that occur," she says.
A more secular solution is
Sheila's. "I think we have to
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realize that there are many dif-
ferent views about such things
as creation and evolution," she
says, "and since we can prove
neither the religious view nor the
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Marilyn feels that talking with
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the problem of meeting other ob-
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Rabbi Kapustin says that most
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held on Friday evenings or Satur-
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sorority, "although I feel that it
would be difficult. Generally, the
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