Georgia Gwinnett College junior Erica Marlette’s biotechnology professor didn’t feel it would have been right to keep students in class on Monday afternoon.
The students were studying science, biology to be exact, and there was another kind of science event taking place outdoors at the same time as the class was scheduled: a partial solar eclipse.
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