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...public religious displays, and this year was no exception. Just last week it was reported that at least three house committees have decided not to organize holiday decorations this year. Last year a Winthrop House resident was offended that the house committee organized and decorated a house Christmas tree. So this year they implemented a hands-off policy, agreeing only to reimburse students for their own religious displays...
This solution is appropriate for highly public spaces such as a town green or a public school. These are the property of a people whose Constitution guarantees against any establishment of religion. The president's yearly ritual of lighting the national Christmas tree is surely problematic. Decorating a non-religious public school for specific holidays excludes an entire group of students. In these cases, it seems appropriate that individuals should find other outlets for their religious expression...
...second common approach is what I would call "token reciprocity." You put up your Christmas tree, I'll put up my Hanukkah decorations. This approach involves little thought; its function is highly reactive. The dominant religion still sets the stage, but others follow suit with their own version of the "holidays...
Last Friday night, Doris Tanner of Oxford St. planted herself next to the Holyoke Center Christmas tree. It was quite cold, and she is quite old, but threat of eviction from her Harvard-owned housing ignited protest. The apartment she lives in is one of 700 formerly rent-controlled units which the University plans to convert into student and faculty housing. Even if she was offered a option to buy, Tanner regrets, she could not afford the going market rates...
...come together." Indeed they had, by the tens of thousands, Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Republican. They carried babies, waved flags and cheered with abandon when Bill Clinton, the first American President ever to visit Northern Ireland, flipped the switch that lit up a 49-ft. white pine Christmas tree, flown in from Nashville, Tennessee, the sister city of Belfast...