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Stanford administrator 'told fraternity to remove American flag to improve its image on campus'
Daily Main Online ^ | December 4, 2018 | Keith Griffith

Posted on 12/04/2018 10:42:11 AM PST by Teotwawki

A Stanford administrator once told a fraternity to remove an American flag flying out front in order to 'improve its image on campus,' according to a new report.

Stanford graduate Pablo Lozano says a residential education liaison made the suggestion in fall of 2017 while the Sigma Chi fraternity was on probation, the Stanford Review reports.

During a meeting with the fraternity members, the administrator 'insinuated not only that the flag made others uncomfortable but that its being flown tainted Sigma Chi’s reputation and, presumably, worsened its chance of survival,' the student publication reported.

Lozano said that the students discussed the administrator's suggestion and became incensed, wondering why displaying the U.S. flag at an American institution would be offensive or alienating, as the administrator seemed to imply.

Instead of removing the flag, the fraternity members decided to get a larger one, said Lozano.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: flag; fraternity; stanford
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To: elcid1970

Actually I’ve seen pictures of those Stuka’s and some didn’t have the swastika on the tail. As for photoshopped? Humpf, don’t you believe the History Channel?


21 posted on 12/04/2018 12:54:52 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SpinnerWebb

Sensual. People are sensuous.

22 posted on 12/04/2018 1:18:59 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Still wanna show me your cucumber?


23 posted on 12/04/2018 1:31:13 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: lowbridge


"Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but I for one am not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!"
24 posted on 12/04/2018 1:33:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Teotwawki

“Instead of removing the flag, the fraternity members decided to get a larger one”

This is the best answer to petty tyrants.


25 posted on 12/04/2018 3:56:34 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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To: Teotwawki

As of 2012, Stanford was receiving $656 million a year from the Federal government. This is the same government who’s flag they’re telling fraternities not to fly.

Makes sense.......


26 posted on 12/04/2018 4:01:58 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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To: Teotwawki

Good for them!


27 posted on 12/04/2018 5:40:27 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Teotwawki

John Wayne was a Sigma Chi.

You gonna tell John Wayne not to fly the American flag?


28 posted on 12/04/2018 10:48:07 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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