Our very own Yeshiva College beat reporter has just been announced as the winner of the RS “I’m From Rolling Stone” contest:

How ironic: The first winner in our series of “I’m From Rolling Stone” writing competitions also just so happens to be the best. That’s right folks, Mordechai Shinefield, who took home the trophy for our very first IFRS assignment — in which we asked you aspiring writers to describe your local music scene in 300 words or less — has been named the best of the best by our very own Joe Levy. (To remind you, Mordy did a clever write-up on his apartment building in Washington Heights.)
As promised, Mr. Shinefield wins a brand new Apple MacBook and a three-month gig as a contributing writer for RS.com. Mazel tov, Mordster! And to all of those who placed in the Top Ten, thanks for your hard work. It was a tough decision, no doubt. Hope to hear from you next year!

In his speech at the University of Georgia, Former President Jimmy Carter revealed a previously-unkown fact about the 1978 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. The audio has been made available by the Red and Black. CampusJ has produced a transcript of the relevant portion:

After the third day, I never let Begin and Sadat see each other; they were at each other’s throats. They couldn’t talk harmoniously for ten minutes, and so I separated them, and for ten days I went back and forth. One day, Sadat had a visit from the foreign minister of Israel, Moshe Dayan. And Dayan told sadat that in effect the Israelis were not going to yield on any more points…and when dayan told Sadat that, Sadat decided to go home to Egypt, and he didn’t tell me, but I found out…that Sadat had ordered a helicopter back to Washington to go home. And I was stricken, because Sadat had been my friend, personally. I didn’t know what to do; Sadat was leaving, I couldn’t do anything about it.
And I went in a back room and I knelt down and prayed, and I asked God to help me. And then I walked over to Sadat’s cabin, and he had all of his suitcases out in front, and all of his aides were there ready to load his suitcases into the helicopter.
And I went in to his room, and I told everybody else to get out, and Sadat and I stood with our noses almost touching, and I told Sadat that he had betrayed me, and betrayed his own people, and if he left, our friendship was severed forever, and the proper relationship between the United States and Israel would be dealt a severe blow. And he went over in a corner by himself and he came back and said “I’ll stay.”

Yeshiva College beat reporter Mordechai Shinefield had the best submission to the first “I’m From Rolling Stone” writing contest, in which journalists can submit their own responses to the assignments from the television show. For the assignment to write about one’s local music scene, Executive Editor Joe Levy writes of Mordechai’s submission:

Mordechai pulls a fast one and redefines his local scene as the music banging from his neighbors’ apartments and his own stereo, meaning he can bring in ringer after ringer: Young Jeezy, t.A.T.U., Dylan, Sean Paul, whatever comes up on the endless shuffle-play of life in New York City. But this pops with culture-clash energy, and it nails the music fan’s passion for new sounds.