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...From his window seat, the new Harvard leader engaged reporters in friendly banter, modestly introducing himself. "Hi, I'm Neil Rudenstine," he said...
When Bridget Kerrigan pinned up her flag in her dorm room window two weeks ago, she perhaps did not anticipate that so many Harvard students would associate her flag with centuries of brutal lynchings and dehumanization. That the flag is the symbol of choice for the Ku Klux Klan, and a symbol which few southern Blacks can embrace with pride, may have escaped her and the others currently displaying the flag. But now that so many students have clearly delineated this for Kerrigan and the others, how can they be unaware of what their continued display of the Confederate flag...
...This is a free country. In a free country, Kerrigan can hang a Confederate flag out her window. And in a free country, the rest of us can criticize her reprehensible behavior. Bok and Pfister shouldn't claim to speak for the entire Harvard community, or the entire Kirkland community, but they can and should tell her what they think. They think she should take her flag down...
Lots of questions have been raised since Bridget Kerrigan first hung a Confederate flag from a window in her Kirkland room three weeks ago. Is her action a fierce display of Southern pride, or is it a disingenuous attention-getting ploy? Is she really an ardent Southerner...
Kerrigan, who transferred from the University of Virginia after her sophomore year, is no stranger to controversies at Harvard. Last year, she hung a Confederate flag from her window in Peabody Terrace, until her superintendent asked her to remove it, a move she says "disillusioned...