I sympathize with many of the Penn State students who feel as if they are rushed on Sunday during their celebration of Easter. Welcome to the world of an under-represented religion.

For most of my school career, I have dealt with this battle. Being of Jewish faith, I have had to sacrifice much of my school time between traveling, attending services, and seeing family for holidays on the Jewish calendar. I have realized that there are times in life where you have to make decisions about what is important to you: seeing family for religious reasons or your education. If missing a day or two of classes for a religious holiday is important to me, then that is what I do and suffer any consequences. It is not the university's responsibility to take care of my religious beliefs.

So instead of relying on the university to meet your needs, take matters into your own hands and miss a few classes. Most professors should be sympathetic to your cause. I understand your concern about this issue. Holidays for any religion are an important time to be spent with family and friends.

However, you should realize that this is an extremely diverse campus and to do this for one religion without doing the same for all is not practical for a state university.

And just because a majority of the students do happen to celebrate one particular holiday should not be of concern in an institution with no religious affiliation.