A Student Council resolution calling on the University to consider Jewish and Muslim holidays when setting academic exams and deadlines was voted down by council members on Tuesday.
The language of the resolution and its limited inclusivity prevented it from passing, Student Council President Abraham Axler said.
The bill, sponsored by second-year College student Uhunoma Edamwen on behalf of the Muslim Student Association and the Jewish Leadership Council, aimed to provide students of these faiths with institutionalized protections on major holidays, such as Eid and Yom Kippur, and to prevent students from feeling disadvantaged for observing their religious holidays.
A revised version of the bill containing more all-encompassing language will likely be passed in the near future, Axler said.
“It’s not dead by any means,” Axler said. “I think it’s going to pass with slightly different language.”
Instead of passing multiple resolutions that protect certain groups of students, a revised resolution will aim to keep project, paper and test dates from conflicting with major religious holidays, or holidays on which observers are not allowed to work.
Student Council will accomplish this by working with a diverse range of religious CIOs on Grounds to compile a list of all dates that could potentially conflict with a given student’s academics.
The original and revised resolutions respond to a lack of awareness among some University faculty that assignments or exams on certain dates could conflict with holidays observed by students, Axler said.
“It’s really an issue of developing awareness,” Axler said.
The original bill included reports from students who encountered resistance from their professors when asked to revise or reschedule due dates; however, any new resolution passed could not force faculty to refrain from having assignments on certain holidays.
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