By Thursday night, the website for the Beacon had received more than 41,000 hits, including 15,000 unique views on the anonymous first-person story, in which a young woman excitedly describes a hotel room tryst and her subsequent regret over having sex, the editors said.
"It's not just that, 'Oh, we're a university, so we believe in free and open discussion about anything," said a co-editor in chief of the Beacon, Toviah Moldwin, who said he understood the objections. "There is also a religious institution that's called the Yeshiva University. The religious part is very much a part of what the institution is and believes in."
His co-editor was more critical. "Yes, there were people who were very upset about the article, but I don't think that was enough cause to really cut off our funding," said Simi Lampert, who founded the Beacon last year after working on a student paper that refused to publish several articles. "Our university spends a lot of time being afraid what this will represent to the rest of the world as the Modern Orthodoxy flagship."
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