We can't catch a break.
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter editorial reports on the lack of a mid-semester break during the fall 2021 term.
- The article says students had no formal break between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, although past years included one or two fall-break days.
- The paper reported that an administrator linked the change to making Thanksgiving break a full week, which the academic calendar labels “fall break.”
- The article adds that Peabody undergraduates had a fall break, creating difficulties for students taking inter-divisional classes.
- The News-Letter reported that the SGA proposed changing two added reading days into mid-semester mental-health days.
- The editorial says the pandemic and the return to in-person learning added stress, and it urged students to make time for rest and friends.