Comparisonizing

The college where I used to work, which is church-affiliated, is inaugurating a new president next month. As a part of the events surrounding the inauguration, classes are canceled all day on the day of the ceremony itself.

Later in that same month we find the college will observe Good Friday, a day of some weight in the religious tradition to which it considers itself affiliated. All classes on that day are canceled too, as long as they are after noon.

Yes, that's right. Become president of the college and that earns a whole day of classes off in your honor. Restore to humanity the possibility of an actual and complete relationship with its creator  -- a central point in the belief system of the faith tradition whose name (and money) the college takes -- and you'll get half of one. But hey, the college hasn't had that many presidents, and Good Friday happens every year. No big deal.