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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Easter in America More About Bunnies than Resurrection

Rutgers experts address religious significance that has faded from public consciousness.

  • NEWS
  • Saturday, March 30

Editor's note: The following article is courtesy of Rutgers Today. By Carrie Stetler Fifty years ago, Easter arrived with hoopla. There were parades and Easter bonnets. Little girls wore Easter dresses to church, complete with white gloves, and went home with an Easter lily, the flower pot wrapped in purple foil. While Americans still celebrate Easter as a rite of spring with colored eggs, baby chicks and bunnies -- all remnants of its pagan origins -- it isn’t the major holiday it used to be.  But for centuries, Easter was more important than Christmas, according to Tia Kolbaba, an associate professor of Byzantine Studies in the Department of Religion in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. It was the first documented Christian …

LisaO

7:29 am on Monday, April 1, 2013

Not all of us are so jaded.   more ›

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Rutgers Professor Explains the Sequester

Rutgers University professor Rosanne Altshuler discusses what the sequester is, what it would do and what programs are affected.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Thursday, February 28

Editor's note: The following story is courtesy of Rutgers Today. Deep federal budget cuts – known as the sequester – are set to take effect on Friday unless Congress and the president can come to an agreement to stop them. President Obama has painted a dire picture of the economic consequences if the across the board cuts go through, while Republicans have resisted attempts at a compromise that would involve raising additional tax revenue. Professor Rosanne Altshuler, chair of the Economics Department at Rutgers, explains how the cuts came to be, what areas of the economy will be affected and what sequester means to higher education. Altshuler is former director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and served as Senior Economist to the…

Bill

8:53 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Odd how so many on here seem to think they know more than someone who studies this stuff for a career. If 2.4% is so little, then why are conservative and Republicans (not necessarily the same) also in fear of the sequester? Instead of criticizing the author or throwing around labels like a bunch of children, offer some solutions. Participate in grown up conversation. Otherwise, you're just …   more ›

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