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Faiths. students will need to choose between their school work and observing holidays like pass over and good friday with their families. trace gallagher has more live from our breaking news desk. >> reporter: at the beginning of the fall stony brook university will hold classes on yom k yom kepper. the university says it's an academic decision, it's not fair to cancel class classes for some religions and not others. they say by celebrating nothing they celebrate everyone. here is the vice provst. >> it will be a personal decision, not a state decision. our goal is to maximize available class ...

Justice. good morning to both of you. dr. robbins, let's start with you. why are you making students choose between taking the day off to observe their religious holiday and going to school? >> ok, in fact, our goal is not to make anyone make a choice. >> but they will. >> well, it will be a personal decision, not a state decision. our goal is to maximize available class time for all of our students and to really make a calendar that's predictable and standardize that makes the most sense academically. >> and i read somewhere that one of the things you were trying to accomplish is on campus, w...

>> right. >> which is clearly not a state decision. >> right. >> how does he think he is going to be able to answer all of this? >> i don't know. you know, he has gone one better than this, reverend al, because he has come out, he is relentlessly attacking the president on this decision to require that all employers, including you the catholic church, pay for contraception and insurance and romney care did the same thing. romney care included family planning services. the state of mass, with 27 other states requires that he didn't say a peep about it. there are so many ways in which he is caug...

oh, my god. you all right? there's a madman -- >> and hollywood rampage caught on tape. a crazed gunman firing into cars. we'll talk about what set him off on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and good morning, everyone. it's monday, december 12th. wow. december 12th where has the year gone? carol is off. i'm christine romans. >> and i'm ali velshi. good to see you again. haven't been here a while but come back into much news. >> tell me your abu dhabi -- >> in case you missed it, republican front-runner newt gingrich must have felt like everyone was ga...

Get out there and mix it up with the other seven folks on the stage and really clearly show the delineation between where hep wants to take the country and where they want to take the country, but most especially where the president is taking the country. and if he does that, i think there are a lot of votes out there for him to grab. and it's not -- keep in mind one factor that everyone is overlooking here. everyone focuses on iowa and new hampshire and talk about that, you know, that hard-core republican base. but when you get beyond that, the way the system is set up is a lot of significant...