For students at Mesa State College, Labor Day is no holiday. In a break with tradition at the Grand Junction, Colo., college, classes are in session today. And students can expect the same for at least the next two years, a college spokeswoman, Dana Nunn, told The Daily Sentinel, a local newspaper.

The college had to choose between holding classes on Labor Day or cutting a fall break set for next month, she said, because of state guidelines on class time.

Adam Davenport, the student-government president, was on the committee that made the recommendation to hold classes today. If the fall break had been axed, he told the Sentinel, students would have had to go from Labor Day to Thanksgiving without a holiday. —Charles Huckabee