Off today? You should be
You should not be reading this before noon today, because unless you have a lab or a Friday-only seminar — both likely in the afternoon — you should not have class, and you should probably be sleeping.
We are concerned that some of you will, in fact, be reading your Thresher with your bagel and coffee in the morning, because today’s ‘reading day’ is not being adhered to by all professors.
Some students will have their regular Monday-Wednesday-Friday classes today, a violation of university policy that intrudes on students’ needed break before final examinations. Even if these students agreed to have class, they should never have been asked to volunteer their time off in the first place; these professors should have designed their syllabuses so their classes actually ended on Wednesday.
In other classes, students have today off but it was initially scheduled as a regular class day on their syllabuses. This situation is equally troubling because the academic calendar is online well before the semester begins — faculty members have no excuse for not knowing about the change.
We hope that in Spring 2006, professors will be more aware and respectful of the reading day. The new Faculty Senate should see to this.
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