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Aaron Kleid of Oak Park is a WSU
law student who also attended Wayne
undergrad because "I didn't feel I'd be
comfortable with campus life."
He questions Yale's fairness. "My
sense is that Yale is saying, 'Well, if
you're Orthodox and don t want to
live on campus, you don't have to go
to Yale.' If you're Orthodox, don't get
the best education? [The students]
have worked for this all their life!"
Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz, director
of Machon L'Torah, says he discour-
ages Jews from living in dorms.
"The neighborhood that a person
lives in really influences a person's way
of thinking and acting, and it's impor-
tant to live in good company," he said.
"That's not to say that the majority of
people in dorms are not good, but the
way they live creates an environment
of conducive to a spiritual lifestyle."
Geoffrey Dworkin, a University of
Michigan sophomore from
Southfield, lives off-campus with sev-
eral other Orthodox men. He says he
can't imagine living in a dorm, but
thinks the Yale students are too con-
frontational.
"I don't think dorm life is what
makes a person a well-rounded indi-
idual, and to me it's dangerous to my
own faith system," he said. "But they
shouldn't have been so vocal about it.
It makes Orthodox Jews who do
choose to live in dorms feel like they
were just spat on."
For David Caroline, a U-M sopho-
more living in a dorm for his second
year and working as a residential
adviser, dorm life is not a problem.
though Caroline grew up attending
veryfrum [observant], all-male
yeshivas" in New Jersey, he says he
enjoys the diversity and is still able to
observe Jewish law.
"To say dorms are Sodom and
Gomorrah is a gross exaggeration," he
said. "It varies from dorm to dorm,
but there is a lot of privacy. No one is
forced to hang out in rooms where
eople are acting lasciviously."
Caroline, who davens with the
Orthodox Minyan at U-M Hillel,
thinks the Yale students threatening a
lawsuit may be expecting the universi-
ty to bend too far.
"The modesty thing is a difficult
thing, but usually people for whom it
is such a big problem attend Yeshiva
.University," he said. "One of the
things that makes [secular] universities
what they are is the entirety of the
experience. I empathize with [the Yale
students], but I wonder if they may be
asking too much."

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