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Columbia Spectator: Commencement 2010 date changes due to religious holiday | Columbia Spectator

  • friend12 · 8 months ago
    This is a no brainer. For each student and their families, commencement is once in a life time event. Setting / changing the dates to avoid a conflict with a religious observance that affects a significant number of students was the correct thing to do in this case and in 2018. That said, this does set a precedence that could be used to disrupt the process in the future because of “religious conflict”.
  • columbia student · 8 months ago
    It is amazing you failed to provide the new date in the article. Kind of seems important, no?
  • Spec Reader · 8 months ago
    Another great reporting job by Kim Kirschenbaum!

    P.S. They don't have a new commencement date, hence, she could not have provided it.
  • HJB · 7 months ago
    Editorial correction is needed: Sarah Brafman, President of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel, is quoted in the article. She is in fact a student in CC '10 , not BC '10.
  • Name · 3 months ago
    If the university senate truly felt it was extremely important to be "secular," no accommodations should have been made for Christmas in fall 2009 (moving up final exams by a day).