Word: windows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First there was the Confederate flag in Kirkland House, thanks to Bridget L. Kerrigan '92. As she did last year, when she displayed the Stars and Bars from her window at Peabody Terrace, Kerrigan says her flag symbolizes Southern pride...
Despite protests from fellow students who saw the flags as symbols of slavery and oppression, neither Kerrigan nor McCormack budged. So Jacinta T. Townsend '92, a Cabot House resident, decided to hang a swastika from her window, hoping that the University would compel her to remove it. Then, she thought, the University would also have to force Kerrigan and McCormack to remove their flags...
Bridget Kerrigan '91 raised a furor at Kirkland House last week when she hung the flag outside her window...
When prowar sentiment is being expressed, however, rules that limit expression of a political idea have a way of being waived, modified or ignored. Authorities at Cornell University decided not to discipline students flying flags from their dormitory windows, despite residential contracts that for safety and maintenance reasons prohibit hanging anything from the window. The University of South Carolina officially frowns on students' leaning out of their windows and using Super Glue to affix flags and banners to their buildings. But officials tolerated the practice at one patriotic freshman dorm, where displays inside the window would not have been visible...
...suburb of St. Louis, Timothy Dunn went out to pick up his morning newspaper and found that his antiwar sign had been torched by a primitive incendiary device. Prowar demonstrators in another Missouri town attacked a car draped with a peace sign. They shoved flagpoles through the windows and shouted, "Commie faggots!" at the two men inside. At the Defense Language Institute at Fort Ord in California, a Russian instructor's car was towed off the parking lot after the decorated Vietnam War veteran refused to remove PEACE IS PATRIOTIC and SAY NO TO WAR signs from the window...