Charn: Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm is a Gaon and a tremendous Talmid Chacham and is respected as such by many other tremendous Talmidei Chachamim. Your blatant disrespect is uncalled for.
Yes, there are problems in YU. I don’t think even the staunchest defender would claim that the place is perfect Mitzad Torah. The University is mostly separate and lets the students choose their own Derech. There is no requirement to be a Yeshivah Bochur in YU. Still, many come and treat it as a Yeshivah with the afternoon courses just to get you a degree. You can go through YU learning 12 hours a day or learning 2. It is a place where someone can make of it what they will. You may disagree with a place like that for yourself, but it does a lot of good for a lot of people.
I’ll quote a paragraph here which is quite inflammatory, and in which you make several unfair judgment calls.
“The unacceptable socializing that goes on between the YU boys and Stern girls, the partying, the inter-collegiate and spectator sports, the bales of Apikorsus to be found in their library, ideas espoused even in the Limudei Kodesh courses that are against the Torah, never mind secular courses where clear anti-Torah ideas and ideals are taught by teachers who have all but carte blanche to say whatever they want, the teaching of Gemorah to girls, and worse yet, the excuse given for it, that “If we teach them medicine and law, they can learn Gemora too”, the Zionism, the allowance of gay clubs (money is no excuse; if they were Neo-Nazi clubs, they would not be tolerated – the issue is the lack of understanding that gay clubs are just as repulsive to G-d).”
I’ll go through point-by-point. The college is not restrictive. If someone wants to go through without ever associating with Stern girls or attending a party it is very easy. Honestly, I don’t think most of the frum (even those that are much more to the left) ever really attend a party.
What is so wrong with spectator or competitive sports? It might not be for you, but what is inherently Assur about it that it Passuls an institution?
It’s true; the library is not under the auspices of the Yeshivah. And all of the Roshei Yeshivah are tremendous Talmidei Chachamim. Some of them might have (I’ll use the word interesting) Hashkafos but they all have solid basis in Rishonim and their Mesorah. No Rosh Yeshivah has ever had to call out another for saying something that is blatantly Kefira’dik.
Not everyone thinks Zionism is bad. You’re making another judgment call for the masses. It might not be for you but it has support of tremendous Talmidei Chachamim.
Teaching Gemara to girls is also a Halachic issue. There are Matirim. You may not hold by them but by Paskening for the whole world you are making another personal judgment call.
There was not, and has never been, a gay club at YU. That is blatant Motzi Shem Ra.