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Students usually wanted longer vacation breaks, while faculty members wanted the conventional system because it was better aligned with early September research deadlines and professional meetings, Lobley says...
Students at Columbia also have mixed feelings about their school's switch to the new system in 1974, Lobley says...
Under the traditional system, "it would get very expensive for students to go home [over Christmas], especially the international students, and we had a serious problem with students and faculty just not returning after the holidays," Lobley says...
With exams after Christmas, "there was a lot of make-up exams and incompletes, and enrollment definitely dropped after the vacation," she adds, explaining why many students prefer the new system. A poll taken two years ago indicated that people liked the calendar, Lobley says...
...unfortunate consequence of the change was that reading period was cut short. "Students are constantly struggling for an extra day, but we just can't fit it in," Lobley says...