LETTER: Monday classes aren’t confusing

Editor,

I am responding to the article in the “Our View” in Friday’s Statesman.

The author, after dramatically stating that we are “being forced” to attend Monday classes on Tuesday, claimed that this would make the week “seem even longer,” and said “Like that isn’t confusing.”

I fail to understand how having Monday classes on Tuesday can make a 4-day week seem longer than a regular week, and I am at even more of a loss as to how so many people can find this concept so difficult to grasp. Confusing?

Come on, people, we are in COLLEGE. Let me make it simple for you: On Mondays you have a certain set, call it set “A,” of classes. On Tuesdays, you have a different set “B” of classes. On the Tuesday in question, everyone will attend A classes instead of B classes. Can it get more simple than “Go to Monday classes on Tuesday?”

Please try to understand that the university is not some evil entity trying to “throw a wrench into our already hectic schedules.” There are some classes, such as my karate class that are both Mon/Wed and Tues/Thurs. For us to miss two classes in the Mon/Wed section will put us significantly behind the Tues/Thurs section.

It is a very simple and easy solution to simply create a “virtual Monday,” thus ensuring that one section of a class does not miss material that the other class learns. Why is this a “confusing situation?”

This idea of attending Monday classes on a Tuesday is not new. If you have a problem with your schedule getting disrupted, you have to work, you are steaming mad at the university for messing up your life, or any other negative feelings toward holding Monday classes on a day of the week that is not, in fact, actually a Monday, I have one piece of advice for you: Don’t go to class!

We are in college, not high school. Skipping of classes is allowed. And I am sure that no one will fail if they skip one day’s worth of classes due to the fact that they are having problems dealing with a schedule change. However, since this will not be printed until after the Tuesday in question has already passed, let me know how it went.

Jan Marie Andersen