Rumor has it, we just missed Fall Break.
We realize there was a three-day weekend, but that's not the Fall Break we know and love. That break was four days, a chance to get away and recover from the horrors of the first half of the semester.
That Fall Break is gone. We traded it in exchange for eliminating Saturday finals. And the strange "Fruesday," a Tuesday that is treated like a Friday, was born in the process. It might be awkward, but it is mandatory. Start the countdown - it's 30 days until the first Fruesday, Nov. 20, arrives.
What will happen that Tuesday is anyone's guess, but a handful of possibilities seem likely. First - everyone, students and faculty alike, will cancel or skip classes on Fruesday since that's what normally happens on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Break. Second - some faculty and student will go to class, while the others will find ways around attending, i.e. offering classes via online forums, creating independent projects or scheduling work time. Third - everyone will go to all their Friday classes like perfect, obedient students and faculty.
There's only one correct choice students and faculty can make, and that's the third one. The student body (meaning our Student Government Association representatives) voted in favor of this academic schedule that ends Finals Week on Friday, Dec. 14, so everyone can ditch campus one day earlier. Not counting, of course, the students who will spend Friday night becoming so obliterated on alcoholic beverages that on Sunday they still find themselves in Muncie nursing a hangover.
Those students won't benefit, and neither will the students who wouldn't have had a Saturday final anyway. Regardless, we are all obligated to observe the hallowed day of Fruesday exactly 30 days from today. We pay for every day of class and deserve to get it.
Shame on the teachers who are already planning to cancel class and start celebrating the holiday break early. Shame on the students who are planning their sob stories for why they have to leave Muncie on Monday night. Shame on any department chairpeople who intend to turn a blind eye on the empty classrooms on Nov. 20.
Start planning your Fruesday lessons and what you will wear that Tuesday. It's not a free day.
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