Jon Kokinda is glad fall break is coming.

"It's going to be refreshing," he said. "There's just so much work right now."

But Kokinda (junior-business management) is not happy that this will be his last fall break.

"I don't like that idea at all," he said.

Kokinda is not alone.

Most students are disappointed that the next four days will be their final fall break at Penn State. The break will be removed when the university's new calendar takes effect next year.

Rubina Javeri, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) president, said the new calendar will be a big change for students.

"It's very unfortunate that USG worked really hard on implementing it [fall break] ... and it's going to be taken away," she said.

USG and the University Faculty Senate encouraged fall break's implementation in the fall of 1999.

Bill Mahon, university spokesman, said one major reason for the calendar change is so classes start in September, rather than August, to give students the chance to work and intern longer.

"By having a longer fall break, that means you have to start sooner in the summer," he said.

Mahon also said students skipping the days of class right before each break in the fall was a concern.

"It was obvious there were some problems with that," he said.

Javeri said the administration's compromise -- making the Wednesday before Thanksgiving a full day off and making a Friday in October a study day -- is no different from the current schedule because students will still extend their breaks.

"The way people use one day off may be different than two or three days [off]," Mahon said. "There isn't going to be a perfect way to create a schedule."

Brad Mader (senior-chemical engineering) called the situation "ridiculous."

"There's no point in taking one day off [as a study day] because everybody's going to use that as their fall break," he said.

This weekend, he said he will go home to relax and get away from work.

"I think it's terrible," Lucy Wimpenny (junior-human development and family studies) said.

Wimpenny said it will be hard to go to classes until Thanksgiving without a break next year.

Ryan Rominiecki (sophomore-division of undergraduate studies) was upset that Thanksgiving break will only be half a day longer to make up for the removal of fall break.