<p>I was skimming the Academic Calendar on Columbia’s website and intrigued to find out that Election Day is a school holiday! Why is that? Does it have a strong push for its students to vote?</p>
<p>And I feel like an idiot asking this but does Columbia have a strong emphasis on getting students politically active?</p>
<p>It’s probably some anachronism. Now, it just makes for a nice 4 day weekend.</p>
<p>Columbia doesn’t need to give people the day off in order to make them politically active. Does anyone even vote at a polling place these days, anyway?</p>
<p>lol, well even if I had elections day off at Columbia, I certainly wouldn’t be voting at a polling place. I’m voting at home!</p>