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Re: Hampshire College In Amherst Stops Flying All Flags
The good news is that very few universities or colleges do pledges such as to the flag or spend much time at all at, near, around, or centered on the flag.
Few colleges do the pledge in the classroom or attend to the flag in outdoor activities.
Many of us (but not enough of us) survived flag centered requirements of law or culture through grades K-12 at school, whether public or private.
Hampshire College as a privately incorporated entity has the latitude to treat the flag in ways that express its local sentiments. Which is what they're doing. The college president wants to try to initiate a focused dialogue about it all within the framework of academic freedom.
Doing it over coffee is good. So for sure, no one needs to be fired or imprisoned...or whatever.
At 8 o' clock in the morning, you still have that economics class and you're still going to get that morning coffee, flag or no flag. It's a stupid gesture, but I'm not certain students are going to miss it either.
The good news is that very few universities or colleges do pledges such as to the flag or spend much time at all at, near, around, or centered on the flag.
Few colleges do the pledge in the classroom or attend to the flag in outdoor activities.
Many of us (but not enough of us) survived flag centered requirements of law or culture through grades K-12 at school, whether public or private.
Hampshire College as a privately incorporated entity has the latitude to treat the flag in ways that express its local sentiments. Which is what they're doing. The college president wants to try to initiate a focused dialogue about it all within the framework of academic freedom.
Doing it over coffee is good. So for sure, no one needs to be fired or imprisoned...or whatever.
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