My religion's holiest holiday ignored

Friday and Saturday the College is dedicating Peters Hall. This I am sure will be a grand ceremony with lots of good food, conversation and laughter. Friday in fact everything will be normal. Saturday will be normal too, except that their wouldn't be any practicing Jews there.

Saturday and Friday night happen to be the day of Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish Holidays, the Day of Repentance. The day where I will fast and spend most of the day praying in Wilder, and ask for God's and other people's forgiveness and forgive them likewise.

I feel stepped on because my religion's holiest holiday has been ignored. I know the college acknowledges Yom Kippur and gives us a day off from classes. It doesn't even give the day off after Easter.

Just for perspective, the Jewish Holiday of Yom Kippur is equal in sacredness to Christmas. It's that important. I don't think that the college would plan such a function as the dedication of a building on Christmas, if Christmas fell sometime during the school year. No one plans events on Christmas, except Religious ones. If someone in the Calender Comittee forgot about Christmas and planned some important event on that day, I am sure that once the holiday was remembered, the date would have been changed.