The new face of Halloween on campus

Ever wonder what professors are told to teach about Halloween? Well, here's an email explaining what the real meaning of Halloween is that was recently sent to teachers at one college institution by someone else on the staff. All I could think when I read it was HAW-HAW-HAW!

"Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow, Oct 31 is Samhaim, a religious holiday in the Celtic tradition. It represents the Celtic New Year and is celebrated by folks who follow one or another of the contemporary Celtic-based spiritual paths. Remember that just as Christians rightly complain that Christmas has been too commercialized and "cartoonized", so too do folks following the Celtic traditions feel that their holy-day has been trivialized (and sometimes even demonized) in our particular culture. I hope we can all be sensitive to this viewpoint as we celebrate in whatever fashion we feel best!"