Our Voice

Spring break has flown by again and the stretch run toward summer has kicked into full gear.

While The Colonnade fully endorses spring break, undoubtedly like everyone else, the timing of it just seems, well, off.

For students it just feels awfully late. We get that the weather is a little warmer, but for the students that plan to enjoy the weather they will probably migrate to Florida anyway.

Here’s the thing. After spring break ended, we immediately entered into the final six weeks of the semester. When this paper hits stands there will be roughly five weeks until graduation for seniors.

For most this means that as soon as the fun is over it is crunch time. Time to write research papers, put together major presentations and study for all those immanent exams.

Before the break most of us are exhausted. We desperately need the break to clear our heads, reset our tired bodies and to relax – however we may choose to do so.

Moving the break up a week or two would drastically alter the stress amount for students before and after spring break. It would also allow GCSU students the opportunity to go on trips with students from other schools such as the University of Georgia.

The current spring break timing is also rather unfair to faculty and staff members, most of whom live in the Milledgeville area and many of whom have children that attend local schools.

Of course to fix this problem it would mean moving spring break back another week. Students may not care much for this option but at least it would alleviate concerns for some of the campus community.

The school systems in Millegeville all have their spring breaks after GCSU’s making it impossible for faculty and staff members to travel or spend extra time with their children.

To The Colonnade it just seems like making an adjustment would help everyone. The only adjustment we don’t want to see is taking it away.

Many students use spring break as a productive means for performing community service, catching up on school work or just enjoying time with their friends.

So, give us a break, guys, an earlier spring break.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Apr 3 2009. Filed under Our Voice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry