According to UW Director of News and Media Relations Meredith McGlone, these are sensible doubts.
At this point, any change to the spring calendar would significantly disrupt classes, McGlone said in an email to The Badger Herald.
Though the petition was created only a few weeks ago, UW’s decision to cancel spring break was put into effect last September, said Assistant Vice Chancellor of University Communications John Lucas.
At that time, university officials could not have anticipated the stress students face today, Lucas said. Instead, they made the most prudent decision they could, given the limited information they had then.