P.J., you are correct.
"Texas A&M observes the number of holidays as allowed by the state
legislature; generally 12 to 15 holidays each fiscal year."
The schedule for FY 2015-2016 lists 14 holidays: Thanksgiving+1,
winter break (Dec.24-Jan1), MLK Day, Spring Break (2days), Memorial and
Independence Days.
For comparison, "the other" TX university, UT Austin, skips the spring
break and celebrates Labor Day, and has an extra day for the winter break.
That's the choice they made.
(And yes, e.g. Univ. of California - San Diego celerbates Cesar Chavez Day
that'd never heard off prior to living in California, while some
East Coast universities celebrate Columbus Day.)
My comment was about what was driving TAMU for its choices.
Igor
P.J. Alling Wed, 09 Sep 2015 06:42:33 -0700 wrote:
Federal holidays are only required to be observed by the Federal
government. If you look at Texas, they probably have an additional State
holiday that's not followed by anyone else. They probably figured that
they could only allow so many days off so something had to give. For an
example of States that have holidays no one else follows such as
Massachusetts with Patriots day, and Rhode Island with VJ day, though I
don't think that VJ day is a paid holiday for state workers anymore.
On Mon, 7 Sep 2015, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
As a kid, I've learned that the International Workers Day (or "the
international day of solidarity of workers"), aka May 1, was inspired by the
Chicago events (Haymarket affair) of 1886.
But until this morning (when I heard a history snippet on PBS radio), I was
unaware that the Labor Day in September is actually related to the same
events but was purposedly established in September to "detangle" from them (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day ).
One of the idiosyn... pecularities of Texas A&M University is that
the Labor Day is not a day off. I don't know how it happened, but I wonder if
that was from some type of disagreement with Pres. Cleveland or labor
movement in the country.
Igor
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Knarf wrote:
I celebrate both! International Workers Day (May Day) and Labour Day are
both worth recognizing.
I have to admit, as May 1 is a, "celebration of laborers and the working
classes that is promoted by the international labor movement, anarchists,
socialists, and communists," (Wikipedia) I'm kind of partial to that. But
North American Labour Day (first Monday in September) works too!
Happy Labour Day!
Cheers,
frank
On 7 September, 2015 11:57:08 AM EDT, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Happy Labor Day whether you celebrate it in May or September.
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