From Campus Reform: On the eve of Veteran’s Day, Hampshire students upset over Donald Trump’s election burned an American flag that had been lowered to half-staff on a campus flagpole, prompting a national controversy that…
Topic: flag ban
South Carolina School Bans American Flag at Football Games due to Taunting
The Travelers Rest High School community saw a flag ban instituted by the school’s principal due to taunting in previous years by flag-waving attendees toward others, which upset some in the community.
New Mexico Student Told to Remove American Flag from Dorm Window, Part of a Larger Flag Ban
Campus Reform noted that the ban on hanging flags in one’s dorm room window is to prevent Confederate flags or Nazi flags from being displayed in windows.
U.S. Supreme Court upholds California Flag Ban during Cinco de Mayo
California high school students were banned from wearing t-shirts with an American flag on it because the courts felt the school had to preserve an orderly environment during Cinco de Mayo activities.
UC-Irvine Professors Sign Petition to Keep U.S. Flag Ban
Of course the professors signed onto the petition to bring back the flag ban in a student building.
University of California’s Star-Spangled BAN-ner
There’s a new f-word at the University of California at Irvine: FLAG. Higher education is teaching students to think critically all right — about their own country. In a head-shaking move even by California standards,…