The Collegian Weekly The opinion of The Collegian editorial staff
Fall break: Everyone needs it, it needs to stay
Issue date: 10/23/08 Section: Opinion
Let's play a little game called "State the Obvious." It's simple: we merely state the obvious. For example: Larry Arnn adores Winston Churchill. AJ's Café makes great $1 cheese quesadillas on Mondays. And we like our fall break.
Rumors have been circulating of casting fall break aside, eliminated and unwanted, and taking in its stead a beefed up Thanksgiving vacation or a delay to fall term's begin.
But have no fear, little fall break: We want to protect you, and it seems most of the administration does, too.
In this issue's article, "Breaks reassembled," The Collegian tackles such rumors flat. Here's the condensed recap: Administration members are concerned with when our school year starts, and when we depart for Thanksgiving. To accommodate either a post-Labor Day start or a lengthier Thanksgiving break, fall break could meet the ax. Or finals could start later.
Let's look at the facts. We all work hard. Professors, students, everyone. We do. So we want our fall break. It gives us something to anticipate in October, a chance to relax or get away, a reward for surviving the first grueling weeks back after lazy summer days. Fall break: it breaks up the fall.
On the same hand, we like our Thanksgiving break. Making it a week long could only improve it.
But Thanksgiving nestles close enough to Christmas already. If the administration seeks to give us a week off for Thanksgiving, then we ask for the full week using some of our already-pilfered Christmas break days instead.
Yet for students from afar, who cannot return home for that great American tradition of turkey, football and oft-untouched cranberry jelly, a lengthier Thanksgiving contributes to their already-existing problem.
And so, it seems, we're caught in a quagmire of scheduling woes.
We doubt fall break faces grave, impending danger, so there's no need to revolt. But just in case, we'd like to state the obvious: We need our fall break.
Rumors have been circulating of casting fall break aside, eliminated and unwanted, and taking in its stead a beefed up Thanksgiving vacation or a delay to fall term's begin.
But have no fear, little fall break: We want to protect you, and it seems most of the administration does, too.
In this issue's article, "Breaks reassembled," The Collegian tackles such rumors flat. Here's the condensed recap: Administration members are concerned with when our school year starts, and when we depart for Thanksgiving. To accommodate either a post-Labor Day start or a lengthier Thanksgiving break, fall break could meet the ax. Or finals could start later.
Let's look at the facts. We all work hard. Professors, students, everyone. We do. So we want our fall break. It gives us something to anticipate in October, a chance to relax or get away, a reward for surviving the first grueling weeks back after lazy summer days. Fall break: it breaks up the fall.
On the same hand, we like our Thanksgiving break. Making it a week long could only improve it.
But Thanksgiving nestles close enough to Christmas already. If the administration seeks to give us a week off for Thanksgiving, then we ask for the full week using some of our already-pilfered Christmas break days instead.
Yet for students from afar, who cannot return home for that great American tradition of turkey, football and oft-untouched cranberry jelly, a lengthier Thanksgiving contributes to their already-existing problem.
And so, it seems, we're caught in a quagmire of scheduling woes.
We doubt fall break faces grave, impending danger, so there's no need to revolt. But just in case, we'd like to state the obvious: We need our fall break.
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