College Brings Back US Flag After Mass Denunciations

BLAKE NEFF
DailyCaller.com
12/02/2016

Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. will once again fly the American flag on campus, at full-staff, administrators announced Friday.

The announcement reverses a decision to remove the flag that made the school a subject of protest and ridicule for the past two weeks.

Hampshire initially placed its on-campus flag at half staff following President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the election. But several student activists agitated for the flag to be removed entirely, saying it represented oppressive forces like the police and the U.S. military.

Then, the night before Veterans Day, an unknown person took down the flag and burned it. The school put another flag up for Veterans Day, but a few days later announced it was taking the flag down indefinitely. At the time, president Jonathan Lash said he hoped removing the flag would encouraged students to focus on more important issues like fighting against racism and anti-gay rhetoric.

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