Maybe you should stay more informed. CSUB announced several times over the course of the past few weeks that the school includes this day-off (holiday with pay) during the winter break. No one is stopping you from observing in your own peculiar way any President's birthday. Have a mai-tai on me to honor Eisenhower getting Hawaii in as a state during his term.

My son goes to Cal Poly (in the CSU system), and they had Friday, Feb. 15 off in observance of George Washington's birthday, according to their academic calendar.

As a CSUB student and employer of Panama Buena Vista, it's strange to have to go to school, yet not work. I see it that the last two mondays where elementary and high school students had the day off, why not the CSU Bakersfield? I understand that college's don't recited the "Pledge of Allegiance", nor does each classroom have an American flag hanging in the corner, but if a majority of the educations take the day off in remembrance of these American heroes, we should too. I did go to class on monday however, where i also noticed adult students having to bring their children to class because they had the day off, yet not the parent.  Maybe some day soon, ALL schools will not only teach about these great men and women who made history, but acknowledge and remember them to.

- a 19 year old student at CSU Bakersfield

A.P., that's insane.  You know just as well as I do that if we did observe President's Day when everyone else observes it, we would still have a winter break.  That excuse does not work.  And, it also doesn't work to say that "oh, well we will observe it over spring break."  What's next, the 4th of July?  Memorial Day?  Veteran's Day?  Why don't we just throw those into the winter and spring break?  Why don't we say, hey lets just observe everything during the times where we would already have a break scheduled.  Pathetic.

Color 9, I wish we would have had the 15th off.  But we were still sitting there in class here in Bakersfield.

Reporters and editors at The Californian figured there'd be lots of confusion about who has which days off for Presidents' Day, Lincoln's B-day, Washington's B-Day, etc. Or any of them, for that matter.

So we did a little story you can read here. Enjoy!

— Christine Peterson, growth and economy news editor

What you seem to forget is that CSUB is on a quarter system so it would be prudent to take a bunch of holidays off. If you would have read your syllabus you would have known in advance when the homework was due.

out of curiosity, how would you have spent your day to honor these past presidents?

ChicaEsquela, I do read my syllabus, thank  you.  And if you have never had a syllabus that lacks actual detail, then you must be new to a University.  My syllabus does not have dates or assignments listed, they are assigned at the end of class.  If I would have had president's day off, I probably would have had a bar-b-q with family and most likely have had an in depth discussion about which president was the best for our country with my stubborn uncle.

Money talks, I read that story and it is outrageous.  They stay in school on President's day so they don't interupt classes?!  What about Memorial Day?  What about Veteran's Day?  I guess they don't?  Also, the story said that they leave it open so that we can have Christmas Eve off?  I guess it says that they can close the campus Christmas eve if we stay open for Pres. Day.  What about Cesar Chavez day?  And I've since I started going to school at a very young age in a very liberal Washington State, we've always had the schools closed on Christmas Eve, and we observed the other federal holidays as well.  And that was in liberal WA.  I expected more from a liberal U in conservative BK.

I'm still waiting for the media story showing the disrespect of CSUB for our American past time.

Abraham Lincoln, Goerge Washington, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez: All American heroes.

"then you must be new to a University"

[heh, chuckle] I'm hardly "new" to the university environment. No due dates? That's genius. I'll bet attendance is high in that class. I love the sense of "entitlement" students ~think~ they have.

A syllabus without due dates? That's bizarre. A syllabus is like a contract between student and professor, is it not? Giving assignments at the end of class is similar to high school but maybe the prof does that to ensure attendance.

Somehow everyone got off of the subject at hand. Interesting.  Focus seems to get lost in most discussions, as everyone wants to have their say without really researching, just commenting.  This is a problem in most communication efforts, and this is a good example.  At some point somebody usually says.."What were we talking about"?   Very interesting reading.