Dear Rabbi: As a college student and as a leader of the Jewish community at Columbia University, I am greatly concerned, and I want to share that concern with you. I am a ba’alat teshuvah, a product of N.C.S.Y., and I came to Columbia excited about joining the religious organizations on campus – but I found most of them ill-equipped to deal with the real needs of the Jewish students and the needs of the campus community. As president of the University’s Seudah Shabbat Society, my involvement in the leadership of the other on-campus Jewish organizations and my commitment to the well-being and furtherance of a very real kind of Jewish life on campus have led me to believe that very radical changes must be made. The existing student-run national college organizations do not meet the needs of most Jewish college communities. In my dealings with a cross-section of the community, I have come to understand the desperate need to reach a greater number of students than has been reached, and to reach generally to improve the quality of Jewish life on campus. I have sincerely come to believe that a more total, a more inclusive national Jewish student’s organization is needed on all college campuses. When Jewish values are being constantly challenged in the college setting, where can a student turn? What avenues exist for him to air his doubts and questions, and have them reasonably answered within a Torah context? It is because of this vital, tragic problem that the few existing student-run organizations are not sufficient to deal with and must be redefined and forged. The existing structures do not stimulate the needs of most students – of all students. Therefore we must dedicate and forge a new organization that is truly representative of all students. For the yeshivah student, we can hold religious study sessions and trips to Eretz Yisrael; we can sponsor learning sessions and help to ease the transition from being a member of a student community to being in a secure, via…