Word: shavuot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students are allowed to change exam dates, Broh said. He added that this semester, the Jewish holiday Shavuot falls during Princeton's exam period and exams have been cancelled for that...
Jewish students last year protested Harvard's decision to hold Comencement ceremonies on Shavuot...
Lyss says that he has tried to stress this year that simply passing resolutions is not effective in bringing about change. "The low point of the year was the Shavuot resolution," Lyss recalls, referring to the council's vote to call on the University to change the date of its Commencement exercise because of conflict with a Jewish holiday, Lyss says that the council, persuaded by emotional appeals from activists who were not undergraduates, passed a resolution that it knew could not be effective...
There will probably be a number of Jewish seniors not in attendance at Commencement today. Not because they don't want to, either Commencement this year was scheduled to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot...
Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who has handled the Shavuot controversy, refused comment on the decision to award Kollek an honorary degree...