Flag display causes ruckus at Holy Cross (THREAD II)

Worcester Telegram & Gazette Staff ^ | OCtober 1, 2001 | Emilie Astell

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Flag display causes ruckus at Holy Cross

Monday, October 01, 2001

By Emilie Astell

Worcester (Mass) Telegram & Gazette Staff

WORCESTER-- Margaret Post took an American flag to work three days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to mourn the death of Todd Beamer, a close personal friend who was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 when the hijacked jet crashed in rural Pennsylvania. She did not realize, she said Thursday, that by hanging the flag in a second-floor hallway of Beavens Hall at the College of the Holy Cross she would cause a commotion. Instead of allowing the flag to remain in place, Royce Singleton, chairman of the college's Sociology Department, asked Mrs. Post, a secretary in the department, to take it down....

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More on Professor Singleton. One of my friends with good contacts at Holy Cross sent me this in response to my question as to whether there was a further explanation for Singleton's conduct.

"I should have elaborated...the professor in question (NOT the most popular man on campus at the moment) perceived the flag as support for a military operation, and being a tree-hugging, owl-licking, ivory-tower...oops, sorry...being a "pacifist," ordered it removed. The resulting reaction has NOT left him well-regarded."

And that from a guy who voted for Al Gore!

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Thread I is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bb8f6f00a40.htm

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Here is Thread 1

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It is ironic to me that when I clicked on the link to the Holy Cross site, I saw an article about grief counselling for the students.

Yet here was an employee who was hurting and someone who ought to have known better made the hurt worse.

This in a Catholic institution.

I note that there was also mention of a seminar on understanding Islam. While it is perhaps laudable to try to understand another religion, I would have preferred it had there first been a better understanding of Christianity.

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Or at least free speech.

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“I don't want to get into why it happened,” he said. “It was a decision I very much regret having made for many reasons.” Mr. Royce Singleton

I'll just bet you do regret it Mr. Singleton, but only because you've been EXPOSED for the COMMIE Globalist you are!