Students call for a necessary break this spring

Hear, ye! Hear, ye! All University professors hear the pleas of your suffering scholars.
Only you can give students a much-needed vacation by not assigning homework or projects during spring break.
Spring semester is always a bittersweet bite of freedom and burn out.
Since August, students have been in class for seven months with only three days for Thanksgiving and three weeks between fall and spring semesters.
Week after week students attend classes, complete homework and projects, balance jobs and have home lives. A social life must fit in the mix as well.
This high-maintenance routine causes sleep deprivation, aggravation and kills off any bit of motivation within students.
Freedom, aka summer, sits on the horizon, however it is months away.
Spring break is a time for students to recharge their spirits, so they may survive the rest of the semester. They need a chance to take multiple naps, hangout with friends and simply “chill.”
This is a time schoolbooks should be used as doorstoppers, laptops should collect dust and thoughts of schoolwork should be replaced with movie times and road trips.
Without a proper break, students return to class as dark-eyed zombies, groaning and banging their heads against classroom walls to ease the pain of not having fun on their week of vacation. 
It is up to you professors to help make spring break a true break. You hold the keys to students’ survival and mental health.
The Talon calls upon all professors to find a way in their curriculum and their hearts to give students the break they deserve.