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by APPdiesel » Sun Aug 23, 2015 2:13 pm
As a sophomore I had a business law class taught by an actual business lawyer. We met late, I think 6 or 7 pm to accommodate his professional schedule. At least 3 times we all showed up to class only to discover the professor was stuck in court and it was cancelled. Yet we still found a way to work around the issue.
Yeah, there will probably be one or two hard-line professors who threaten a test during the proposed missed class time but I'm willing to bet an overwhelming majority of professors whose classes will be directly affected will be more than willing to give students a night off or find some other way to work around the games because a) they're reasonable human beings, b) they want to go to the games themselves, and c) they understand how important these games are to their students. That or their individual college deans will ask them to work-around for all the reasons many of you have already stated. I don't know about you, but in 5 years at App I never had a single professor who was so hard line that they refused to be accommodating.
I was in school for 5 years, lived off campus for 3 of them and ALWAYS found a way to class. You forget students can think for themselves. We're not talking about helpless 8 year olds. We're talking about resourceful 18-21 year olds who can walk, ride bikes, *god forbid* figure out the Appalcart system if they don't already use it, or get to campus early and hang out for the day.
We are in uncharted territory here. It simply CANNOT be one way or the other. It cannot be "hold all game day traffic at the edge of campus because classes are in session" just as it cannot be "the university is cancelling all classes for athletics". The concept of compromise means neither side gets everything they want, but both sides get some of what they want, and I'm confident the plan the administration has developed will work as best as it can.
Students, alums, and fans will be there in force. Kidd Brewer will be rowdy. I will be there!