Daniel S. Goldin will not be inaugurated as Boston University’s ninth president, but Nov. 17 will remain a university holiday, President ad interim Aram V. Chobanian announced in an email sent to students, faculty and staff Monday night.

The letter explained that because many faculty members, staff and students have already made plans for the holiday, the university will still observe the day.

‘Over the next few days, the Office of the Dean of Students will announce a program of student activities, including community service opportunities,’ the letter said.

Kristin McCaney, a School of Management sophomore, said she was relieved by the decision to still have the holiday and said she would use the day off for studying.

‘I think that since they did give it to us a while ago, they couldn’t really take it back,’ McCaney said.

Erik Ardini, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said he would have been very angry if the holiday was taken away.

‘We paid $1.8 million for that day off we definitely should have it,’ Ardini said.

CAS junior Patrick May said, after hearing that Goldin would not be the next president, that he was still going to take the day off.

‘I was going to protest if we didn’t have the day off,’ May said.

But Karen Hoffman, a CAS sophomore, said she thought the holiday only brought attention to the ’embarrassment’ the Board of Trustees caused the university after Goldin and the Trustees agreed on a settlement that denied him the university’s top office.

‘I feel like the day off was given for celebration of the new president in the first place, but since the whole situation ended up being so embarrassing, there really isn’t anything to celebrate,’ Hoffman said.

Still, she said she was happy to have a day off.

Even though students were generally enthusiastic about the university’s decision, many said they were not interested in attending whatever activities the Dean of Students Office has to offer and would use the day to party, study or travel home.

Shannon Egin, a Sargent School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences sophomore, said she is ‘definitely going to go out’ on the holiday.

Ardini said he may attend the activities, depending what exactly they would be, saying that ‘they should be funny.’

Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore did not return phone calls last night.