Besides the usual end-of-summer cookouts and swim parties, Labor Day
activities this year will include the first day of fall classes.
Sentiments were nearly evenly divided in a faculty ballot, with only a
one-vote advantage for starting on Labor Day instead of later in the week, according to
Dean of Faculty Linda Cool. The option of starting in mid-month and ending classes after
Thanksgiving received fewer than 20 votes, she said.
Exams will finish by Thanksgiving, the Jewish holidays will not fall
during either orientation or the first week of classes, and “we will have the benefit
of a full, uninterrupted exam period preceded by a two-day reading period,” she said
in a memo.
The Registrar's Office has distributed 1998-99 calendars to
departments.