�At the same time, his mother noticed that he was learning chassidus to the detriment of the gemora, and directed the father to take take from his all-important position and teach the child himself.�
YU hosts �pride� clubs, does ChaBaD? Maybe he should have learned chassidus to avoid this terrible aversion to the derech. Modern orthodoxy obviously has an Avodah Zarah problem with �pride�. G-d have mercy on these tormented souls.