Whether Easter is, for you personally, a day of religious solemnity or merely an excuse for a family gathering and dinner, COTTonLINE hopes you find today rewarding. When the older among us were kids, it was a day when you wore new clothes and celebrated the arrival of Spring.
In those long-ago years, schools took the week leading to Easter as their spring vacation. Few public institutions do so today as obviously favoring one religion over another is not politically correct.
As we've noted elsewhere, many universities and colleges now take the week that includes St. Patrick's Day as their spring vacation. They adopted this schedule so students who use March 17 as an excuse for binge drinking are misbehaving on their own time; the institution is not "in session" and shares no responsibility for alcohol poisoning deaths.
