<p>It depends, Tatin. Have they had issues before when they had class on Lunar New Year? If zero students requested special arrangements for lunar new year, and 100 students requested arrangements for RH, causing a logistical headache, why would they treat the two the same way? When you get more police presence for the average professional baseball game than the average professional tennis match, it isn’t evidence of an official state preference for baseball, but a recognition that there have traditionally been more crowd-control issues in baseball stadiums than at tennis courts.</p>
<p>Also recall that the school isn’t saying that it will never hold classes on the Jewish High Holidays again. They are saying that they will not schedule the FIRST classes of the year to conflict with those days. If the holiday had been on the Monday and Tuesday after the Thursday that classes started, it is my understanding Jewish students would be out of luck, which with only 3 % Jewish enrollment, probably makes sense. If Greek Orthodox Christmas falls out on the first day of winter semester, I might agree that that, too, should be taken into account, although it would depend on the relative populations of the two minority groups.</p>