Faculty approve Holy Days resolution

On December 7th, 1981, Dickinson College faculty approved a resolution stating that professors will refrain from "administering tests and examinations on major Christian and Jewish holy days." The new resolution now allowed students with religious obligations the opportunity to sit alternative "make-up" exams for unavoidable conflicts. English professor David Krantz, chairmen of the Academic Program Committee, said that the resolution responded to occasional complaints from students facing conflicts while preparing for exams on religious holidays. Judaic studies professor Ned Rosenbaum proposed drafting a resolution in early October 1981, and wrote the resolution. Senate President Marilyn Emerson congratulated the faculty on the resolution, saying that "as a Jewish student I have been frustrated every fall for four years when I had to reschedule an exam that had originally been scheduled for either Yom Kippur or Rosh Hoshanah." The resolution specified that the chaplain's office shall supply dates for Holy Days on a yearly basis in time for syllabi preparation.