http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687 February 19, 2008 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To Whom It May Concern: &nbsp; I was surprised to hear my professor announce that we had homework due on Monday February 18, 2008.&nbsp; I asked for clarification of the day, due to President&rsquo;s Day.&nbsp; My professor reaffirmed that we would have class on President&rsquo;s Day.&nbsp; I thought this seemed strange, so I looked into it more over the weekend.&nbsp; I found the academic calendar for CSUB online and noticed that my teacher&rsquo;s assertions were correct.&nbsp; I also noticed that the campus was closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and would close for Cesar Chavez Day. &nbsp; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez did great things for our country and for civil rights.&nbsp; However, I believe that their accomplishments pale in the face of those of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.&nbsp; I believe it is not unfair to say that without George Washington and Abraham Lincoln we would not have had a Martin Luther King, Jr. or Cesar Chavez.&nbsp; Or at the very least, we can be sure that we would have had to wait far longer to see one of their likes arise in America. &nbsp; I could put together a large corresdpondence making my point undeniably clear and persuasive, but I will constrain myself for now.&nbsp; I will only say that this is an outrage on our country.&nbsp; I cannot believe that the media ignored this situation.&nbsp; I am now writing this letter to President Mitchell, and sending a copy to the newspapers and the CSU administration.&nbsp; I desire no reply or recognition as the author of this statement.&nbsp; I desire action.&nbsp; I desire movement towards a greater respect for our country&rsquo;s heroes. &nbsp; As a citizen of the United States of America, I demand that we celebrate our country!&nbsp; I demand to see more American flags on the campuses of our government run schools.&nbsp; I demand the celebration of our country&rsquo;s leaders.&nbsp; We are going down a dangerous road.&nbsp; I will not remain silent until our schools have more American flags on their campuses.&nbsp; And, I will continue to speak out against the ignoring of those holidays that celebrate our country&rsquo;s founding and principles. &nbsp; Sincerely, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A concerned student and citizen. &nbsp; February 19, 2008 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To Whom It May Concern: &nbsp; I was surprised to hear my professor announce that we had homework due on Monday February 18, 2008.&nbsp; I asked for clarification of the day, due to President&rsquo;s Day.&nbsp; My professor reaffirmed that we would have class on President&rsquo;s Day.&nbsp; I thought this seemed strange, so I looked into it more over the weekend.&nbsp; I found the academic calendar for CSUB online and noticed that my teacher&rsquo;s assertions were correct.&nbsp; I also noticed that the campus was closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and would close for Cesar Chavez Day. &nbsp; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez did great things for our country and for civil rights.&nbsp; However, I believe that their accomplishments pale in the face of those of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.&nbsp; I believe it is not unfair to say that without George Washington and Abraham Lincoln we would not have had a Martin Luther King, Jr. or Cesar Chavez.&nbsp; Or at the very least, we can be sure that we would have had to wait far longer to see one of their likes arise in America. &nbsp; I could put together a large corresdpondence making my point undeniably clear and persuasive, but I will constrain myself for now.&nbsp; I will only say that this is an outrage on our country.&nbsp; I cannot believe that the media ignored this situation.&nbsp; I am now writing this letter to President Mitchell, and sending a copy to the newspapers and the CSU administration.&nbsp; I desire no reply or recognition as the author of this statement.&nbsp; I desire action.&nbsp; I desire movement towards a greater respect for our country&rsquo;s heroes. &nbsp; As a citizen of the United States of America, I demand that we celebrate our country!&nbsp; I demand to see more American flags on the campuses of our government run schools.&nbsp; I demand the celebration of our country&rsquo;s leaders.&nbsp; We are going down a dangerous road.&nbsp; I will not remain silent until our schools have more American flags on their campuses.&nbsp; And, I will continue to speak out against the ignoring of those holidays that celebrate our country&rsquo;s founding and principles. &nbsp; Sincerely, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A concerned student and citizen. &nbsp; en-us <p>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.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198816 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198816 <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198819 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198819 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>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 &quot;Pledge of Allegiance&quot;, 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.&nbsp; Maybe some day soon,&nbsp;ALL schools will not only teach about these great men and women who made history, but acknowledge and remember them to.</p> <p>- a 19 year old student at CSU Bakersfield</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198835 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198835 <p>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 &quot;Pledge of Allegiance&quot;, 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.&nbsp; Maybe some day soon,&nbsp;ALL schools will not only teach about these great men and women who made history, but acknowledge and remember them to.</p> <p>- a 19 year old student at CSU Bakersfield</p> <p>A.P., that's insane.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; That excuse does not work.&nbsp; And, it also doesn't work to say that &quot;oh, well we will observe it over spring break.&quot;&nbsp; What's next, the 4th of July?&nbsp; Memorial Day?&nbsp; Veteran's Day?&nbsp; Why don't we just throw those into the winter and spring break?&nbsp; Why don't we say, hey lets just observe everything during the times where we would already have a break scheduled.&nbsp; Pathetic.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Color 9, I wish we would have had the 15th off.&nbsp; But we were still sitting there in class here in Bakersfield.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198837 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198837 <p>A.P., that's insane.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; That excuse does not work.&nbsp; And, it also doesn't work to say that &quot;oh, well we will observe it over spring break.&quot;&nbsp; What's next, the 4th of July?&nbsp; Memorial Day?&nbsp; Veteran's Day?&nbsp; Why don't we just throw those into the winter and spring break?&nbsp; Why don't we say, hey lets just observe everything during the times where we would already have a break scheduled.&nbsp; Pathetic.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Color 9, I wish we would have had the 15th off.&nbsp; But we were still sitting there in class here in Bakersfield.</p> <p>Reporters and editors at <a href="http://www.bakersfield.com"><i>The Californian</i></a> 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.</p> <p>So we <a href="http://www.bakersfield.com/137/story/365521.html">did a little story you can read here</a>. Enjoy!</p> <p><i>&mdash; Christine Peterson, growth and economy news editor</i></p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198910 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198910 <p>Reporters and editors at <a href="http://www.bakersfield.com"><i>The Californian</i></a> 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.</p> <p>So we <a href="http://www.bakersfield.com/137/story/365521.html">did a little story you can read here</a>. Enjoy!</p> <p><i>&mdash; Christine Peterson, growth and economy news editor</i></p> <p>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.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198959 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198959 <p>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.</p> <p>out of curiosity, how would you have spent your day to honor these past presidents?</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198998 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_198998 <p>out of curiosity, how would you have spent your day to honor these past presidents?</p> <p>ChicaEsquela, I do read my syllabus, thank&nbsp; you.&nbsp; And if you have never had a syllabus that lacks actual detail, then you must be new to a University.&nbsp; My syllabus does not have dates or assignments listed, they are assigned at the end of class.&nbsp; 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.</p> <p>Money talks, I read that story and it is outrageous.&nbsp; They stay in school on President's day so they don't interupt classes?!&nbsp; What about Memorial Day?&nbsp; What about Veteran's Day?&nbsp; I guess they don't?&nbsp; Also, the story said that they leave it open so that we can have Christmas Eve off?&nbsp; I guess it says that they can close the campus Christmas eve if we stay open for Pres. Day.&nbsp; What about Cesar Chavez day?&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; And that was in liberal WA.&nbsp; I expected more from a liberal U in conservative BK.</p> <p>I'm still waiting for the media story showing the disrespect of CSUB for our American past time.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204575 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204575 <p>ChicaEsquela, I do read my syllabus, thank&nbsp; you.&nbsp; And if you have never had a syllabus that lacks actual detail, then you must be new to a University.&nbsp; My syllabus does not have dates or assignments listed, they are assigned at the end of class.&nbsp; 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.</p> <p>Money talks, I read that story and it is outrageous.&nbsp; They stay in school on President's day so they don't interupt classes?!&nbsp; What about Memorial Day?&nbsp; What about Veteran's Day?&nbsp; I guess they don't?&nbsp; Also, the story said that they leave it open so that we can have Christmas Eve off?&nbsp; I guess it says that they can close the campus Christmas eve if we stay open for Pres. Day.&nbsp; What about Cesar Chavez day?&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; And that was in liberal WA.&nbsp; I expected more from a liberal U in conservative BK.</p> <p>I'm still waiting for the media story showing the disrespect of CSUB for our American past time.</p> <p>Abraham Lincoln, Goerge Washington, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez: All American heroes.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204601 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204601 <p>Abraham Lincoln, Goerge Washington, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez: All American heroes.</p> <p>"then you must be new to a University"</p> <p>[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.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204604 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204604 <p>"then you must be new to a University"</p> <p>[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.</p> <p>A syllabus without due dates? That's bizarre.&nbsp;A syllabus is&nbsp;like a contract between student and professor, is it not? Giving assignments at the end of class is&nbsp;similar to&nbsp;high school but maybe the prof does that to ensure attendance.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204610 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_204610 <p>A syllabus without due dates? That's bizarre.&nbsp;A syllabus is&nbsp;like a contract between student and professor, is it not? Giving assignments at the end of class is&nbsp;similar to&nbsp;high school but maybe the prof does that to ensure attendance.</p> <p>Somehow everyone got off of the subject at hand. Interesting.&nbsp; Focus seems to get lost in most discussions, as everyone wants to have their say without really researching, just commenting.&nbsp; This is a problem in most communication efforts, and this is a good example.&nbsp;&nbsp;At some point somebody usually says..&quot;What were we talking about&quot;?&nbsp;&nbsp; Very interesting reading. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_258113 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ThatBonnyLoon/21687/#c_258113 <p>Somehow everyone got off of the subject at hand. Interesting.&nbsp; Focus seems to get lost in most discussions, as everyone wants to have their say without really researching, just commenting.&nbsp; This is a problem in most communication efforts, and this is a good example.&nbsp;&nbsp;At some point somebody usually says..&quot;What were we talking about&quot;?&nbsp;&nbsp; Very interesting reading. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>