Mardi Gras jubilee ignores two centuries of history, tradition University Wire | February 28, 2001| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Shannon Sullivan
University Wire
02-28-2001
(Indiana Daily Student) (U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Mardi Gras is known in college circles as an excuse for drinking and a chance to bare breasts for beads (or take pictures of someone else doing so), risking it all for 10-cent trinkets. But behind the madness that is sensationalized by the media, there is more than two centuries of history and tradition that is often ignored.

Originally brought to this continent by the French and Spaniards, Mardi Gras is a time for revelry and excess before Lent, a period of 40 days of atonement and reflection ...

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