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“What’s very heartbreaking about Yeshiva is that it attracts these very sincere, spiritual people yet it is revealing itself to be such a catastrophe,” said Margaret Soltan, an associate professor of literature at George Washington University in Washington who blogs about higher education. “It’s a catastrophe for the community that the leadership there has managed to screw it up.”

UD is quoted in today’s Bloomberg News on the Yeshiva University disaster.

Margaret Soltan, January 22, 2014 9:33AM
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