Winthrop Labors on Labor Day

Winthrop University in Rock Hill will be in session on Labor Day for seemingly unknown reasons.

Winthrop, the premier education facility in York County, the last county in South Carolina to recognize Martin Luther King Day despite having no room for racism, has had the policy to labor on Labor Day since the beginning of time.

The University of South Carolina, as well as local high schools, do not have classes on Labor Day.

“I’ve gotten used to it”, Dr. Laurence Timbs, Associate Professor of Mass Communication said.

Timbs, who has nothing better to do than teach at Winthrop or pet his Dog Roadie, unquestioningly see’s the policy as part of his job. When asked whether he would prefer to party all night Sunday before Monday instead of go to bed early to get up to work, he said that “At my age, you don’t want excitement.”

And while 59 year old college professors may prefer the simple life of working until the bitter end, young people like Jared Philips prefer the non stop party all night long idea.

“Going to school on Labor Day is gay”, he said. “I want to stay up late and play computer games but can’t because I have to get up early for class. What a joke. Ahhggg!”

Jared’s sentiment was shared by many of the students at Winthrop, minus perhaps the part about computer games, which can be exchanged for drinking heavily, more than likely.

Timbs, attempting to shift the reasons for why he is teaching on Labor Day away from his complacency with the policy (similar to the way the Germans looked the other way during the Holocaust) to the students.

“Maybe student activism could lead to a change in the policy,” he said.