It's Thanksgiving week, so the week is truncated to Monday - Wednesday. Night class on Wednesday is cancelled, as is another, earlier class on Wednesday.
The argument for cancelling Wednesday's day class (existentialism) was pretty poor if you ask me. The professor reasoned that since we had already made up a day on a weekend and missed fall break (both due to hurricane make-ups), it wouldn't hurt to miss a day. And, since many people expressed that they would not go to class, it wouldn't be fruitful to have class because he wouldn't want to start lecturing on the next topic because it's so mind-blowingly complex that anyone who misses will be unable to comprehend the next readings. Seriously, that's about how he said it.
It's not really a class that has a specific curriculum that must be finished, and he shifts it around as he wants. If there's more interest in one philosopher than another, he'll spend more time on it. So yeah, I guess it's not like we're missing too much. But, if you're going to make students go to class on a Saturday, I don't think you should be cancelling a regular class day because you had enough classes already. And if people want to skip a class, let them struggle through the readings. I'm not terribly disappointed with this class being cancelled, but the reasons for doing so are pretty abhorrent.
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