Trust me, it’s still very often frequented 🙂 – it reopened (to everyone’s relief) a few weeks ago.
It also has Mendy’s, Tiberias, and Eden Wok.
Torah: I agree with most of what you say (and the self-motivation part is one of the reasons why I didn’t want to go to Touro- one of the higher-ups there called me to convince me to go and talked a lot about how individual people had taken initiative, and not that there were frameworks in place to help. I’m not a huge get-up-and-go person and I didn’t want this to seriously hamper my college experience) except for where you imply that it’s harder to stay yeshivish in Stern. I haven’t found this to be true- as I mentioned, I know a very yeshivish girl- a senior- who, while not dorming, is very involved in Stern, to which she commutes from Lakewood every day. She is friends with many different girls from many different backgrounds. If you want to be more likely to have exclusively yeshivish friends, then definitely go to Touro. But not having that doesn’t predispose stopping to be yeshivish. (That said, people who are mindful do often take precautions- like my friend, who is either very yeshivish or very RWMO- she can’t decide which- and is currently in a “Bais Yaakov room” with girls from BY seminaries.) There are plenty of yeshivish and VERY RWMO girls who stay the same throughout (and I plan to be one of them).
The girls who change with peer pressure are the ones who weren’t solid in their specific hashkafos to begin with. Perhaps more like-minded girls might help preserve status quo, but no more than that.
Also, apropos of nothing- just curious- I only mention this because my friends both at Lander and Flatbush both complain about this, but what was your experience with objectionable content in your courses? Specifically, was anyone ever successful in appealing to administration? (One of my friends is at her wit’s end and wants to know if there’s anything she can do.)