LizzieMaine
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Easter is not a fixed date, and it's not up to US colleges to do so. Spring break is, of course, originally tied to the Easter holiday, and it's origins of sitting around the beach drinking are in the 1930's. During that time, resorts and cities in the south, particularly Florida, tried to attract tourism by hosting swimming events for college students during the Easter holiday. It gradually morphed into the spring bacchanalia we think of today. Of course, the idea of a chemically-induced sex party to celebrate the springtime is thousands of years old, hardly a modern phenomenon.
Of course, in the '30s only a tiny fraction of Americans were college students, most of them representing the moneyed elite. All the honest people were either working thru the spring or looking for work.
A culture that bases itself on the habits of the degenerate upper classes is only hastening its own doom.