Then for the sake of equality, I want no homework on any saint feast days!

Isn't Festivus always December 23rd? So, that's like school on Sunday...no class.

Winter-een-mas?

My religion (saying its name is not permitted) has holidays only on days ending in "y".

No.  Also, fark off.

Christians have to do homework over their biggest holiday (Easter-- hell, if it's during spring break and they're getting a real degree it's not so much "spring break" as "spring bigger project worth more of the grade than usual week, hope you weren't planning to go anywhere"), and no one gives special allowances for holidays tied to non-stupid institutions like president's day and so on.  OK, maybe calling the US government "non-stupid" is a stretch, but it's leaps and bounds up on religion and we're not giving extensions on the weekly assignments for memorial day (unless it's actually due the day class is out, I guess, but who makes the homework due on monday?).

You are not special, do your homework and go away.

//Or don't do it.  It's College, if you can pass the finals and use the grade rubric we give you to bring everything up to passing level without doing any homework whatsoever then welcome to the real world, if you achieve the stated objectives then you get the grade we said you would, more power to you.  You're not pulling anything clever over on us, if we design the course so that you only have to do half the homework to make a B then we're perfectly fine with you doing only half the homework if all you want is a B, no damned skin off our nose.

No pagan holidays? Well, then no reports on Christmas either,

That could get complicated fast considering the days of the week are named to honor various Nordic gods, and the sun and moon.

Weaver95: ya know...I kinda like the pagans.  every time I go to one of their events there's good food and decent-to-awesome beer.  And there's almost never any black magic orgies.

shiat, the black magic orgies are the best part.

/predictable joke

Wicca does have the advantage of having a god that is older than christianity's god, while being FAR more up-to-date in terms of religion's role in modern society.

TheBigJerk: Weaver95: ya know...I kinda like the pagans.  every time I go to one of their events there's good food and decent-to-awesome beer.  And there's almost never any black magic orgies.

shiat, the black magic orgies are the best part.

/predictable joke

Wicca does have the advantage of having a god that is older than christianity's god, while being FAR more up-to-date in terms of religion's role in modern society.

I think that anyone working on the military should consider worshiping the Norse gods, since they are more akin to their line of work.

I'd say Khorne, but that would get the US into more trouble.

Nothing like a good eye of newt and toe of frog dinner.

uncleacid: Nothing like a good eye of newt and toe of frog dinner.

You and your unhealthy obsession with eye of newt. If it were up to you, the whole stew would be made of eye of newt.

Jim_Callahan: No.  Also, fark off.

Christians have to do homework over their biggest holiday (Easter...

Easter is not even remotely Christianity's biggest holiday.  I'm sure it "ought to be" but it isn't.  there are several Saint's days that are higher on the list as Americans practice it.

Everything else?  Yeah, that's about right.  Real classes don't give a shiat about the holidays, they expect your ass to be working until the work's done, so get to work.

cgraves67: Then for the sake of equality, I want no homework on any saint feast days!

Better yet, on no Jewish holidays.  They have lots of little ones like Tu Bishvat or Yom Ha'atzmaut.  And write off a month for all the holidays between Rosh Hashanah & Simchat Torah.  And no weekend homework because of Shabbat.

Isn't every day a holiday for somebody?

Why don't we just stop working altogether lest we offend someone, somewhere, somehow?

However, a religion based on fat chicks isn't to be taken seriously.

1. I dated a wiccan woman for a while, fun little minx.

2. That's what we need to stay competitive in the global market, more softball colleges.

/dntra

"So, what's college like?"

"It's not really too useful for actually learning stuff, but you can say or lay claim to the most outrageous bullsh*t and everybody has to kiss your ass rosy about it or get fired."

"Seriously?  DADDY!  I need tuition money!"

Don't forget you stop by the degree dispenser on the way to your first barista job.

cgraves67: Then for the sake of equality, I want no homework on any saint feast days!

That would be easy all 8 pagan holidays are mirrored catholic saint's days!

As a graduate of 2 of the 4 campuses, sure, don't care what they do regarding that.

However, Mizzou can Fark off 1) for joining the college athletics money grab and jetting to the SEC for a better "cultural" fit.  2)  For undermining my successful graduate program and pulling some shady shiat in the process.

 I find it more than just a little disinginuous that the people in article only started complaining when they added pagans to the list. My guess is that you didn't hear  peep out of them when they were not assigning work on christian holidays.

Lil hypocracy with that wine?

Hypnozombie

Universities, you see, are no longer about teaching or learning.  They're like medicine. Medicine isn't about healing.  They are about money.  Moving it in a specific direction, and keeping it.  The trappings are just that.  We've installed milking machines on every single cash cow left, and the people who run them will jump through any hoop you hold up as long as the check clears.  Obsequious culture is obsequious.

No Festivus?



I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!

WhippingBoy: However, a religion based on fat chicks isn't to be taken seriously.

I am partial to the logitech wireless 4305.  Any flatscreen will do.

Now I Is!: cgraves67: Then for the sake of equality, I want no homework on any saint feast days!

That would be easy all 8 pagan holidays are mirrored catholic saint's days!


Um. . . I think it's the other way around.
Pretty sure the catholics co-opted all the again holidays, starting with christmas and easter.

Pagan!

/farking auto correct

TheBigJerk: Weaver95: ya know...I kinda like the pagans.  every time I go to one of their events there's good food and decent-to-awesome beer.  And there's almost never any black magic orgies.

shiat, the black magic orgies are the best part.

/predictable joke

Wicca does have the advantage of having a god that is older than christianity's god, while being FAR more up-to-date in terms of religion's role in modern society.

That's because Wiccans basically invented in the modern era.  Taking what they liked and leaving what they didn't.

Eight days a year for Pagans and they complain. Weeks off for Christmas, built into the schedule. The mind boggles.