SBU to hold classes on religious holidays
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | The campus at Stony brook University in Stony Brook. (Mar. 16, 2012)
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Stony Brook University is changing its school calendar, upsetting some students and faculty because it will no longer cancel classes on major Jewish and Christian holidays, including Rosh Hashanah, Passover and Good Friday.
Stony Brook says it is putting itself in line with other major research universities and leveling the playing field by ending a practice that honors only some religions.
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