Skip Days Hope to Enhance Productivity

Skip Days Hope to Enhance Productivity

Four new holidays have been added to the calendar for the 2016 fall semester, all of which are called Skip Day, and one can be taken for every year a student has been enrolled.

College is a stressful time for everyone and students skip class for a variety of reasons including laziness, sleep, brown bag flu and other homework. After Chancellor Sleeps realized this, it was a no-brainer for him to incorporate skip days.

“Everyone wants to think academics are the most important thing, but as a young adult, sometimes mental health is more important.”  Sleeps said.

Unlike during high school skip days, students will not be punished. Instead they will be rewarded. Each grade will receive 100 percent on anything they are to miss. This will be indisputable by professors of any rank and will not count as a missed day for anyone, and no one will be awarded for attending classes on their skip day.

The administration believes this will cut down on other skip days and will raise students’ grades. They considered creating a fifth for the students who have been here for more than four years, but decided against it.

“They’re here for one of two reasons: They are either failing and need to attend class or are so invested in their classes they want to go. Either way they have already had four skip days,” Sleeps said.

The chancellor is not the only one who thinks this is a good idea, students in every major rejoiced when this announcement was made.

Macie Water, senior water major, said “It’s a great idea. It’s good to skip just for mental health, we can go back to classes re-energized and focused.”

Some professors do not see it that way. Professor Stiffs, of the biology department, has students of all years.

“It’s going to be inconvenient to have students missing every day. They should learn to balance out their lives and this is the time to do it,” he said.

Freshman Skip Day will be Friday, Nov. 14, 2016, in order for them to get a taste of what it is like to have no Friday classes before scheduling for the next year.

Sophomore Skip Day will be Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 in order to give them a day before Finals start to study. After all, grades are of the utmost importance.

Junior Skip Day will be Monday, Nov. 28, 2016 in order for students to finish any homework they have over Thanksgiving break that they have not finished.

Senior Skip Day will be Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, in order for those to recover from homecoming and finish the homecoming they inevitably put off in order to party.

After seeing how these holidays go over during fall semester they may be built into the spring semester as well.

Jenna Koslowski

Arts and Entertainment Editor

Jkosl669@uwsp.edu

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