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...limits of free speech have been a consistent topic of controversy at Harvard and other universities. In spring 1990, a Confederate flag hung outside Leverett House by Jon P. Jiles '92 was voluntarily removed by Jiles after students complained. And in fall 1989, Kerrigan's Peabody Terrace flag was removed by the superintendent because it violated a clause against irregular window displays in her rooming contract...
Other Universities have been more heavy-handed in their restriction of "hate expression." Cornell University, for example, three years ago imposed a ban on all flags and banners hanging on its buildings. The ban was imposed in response to a student who hung a Confederate flag...
...recent campus-wide controversy concerning the display of offending symbols was sparked two weeks ago, when Kirkland resident Bridget L. Kerrigan '92 hung a Confederate flag from her window. The next day, Timothy P. McCormack '91-'92 put on display a similar flag from a window in his Cabot House suite...
That same day, Jacinda T. Town-send '92 hung a swastika from her Cabot House suite, which is in view of McCormack's, in protest of his flag. On Monday, Townsend took that flag down...
Dowling said that a student who hung a Confederate flag from a window in his Leverett suite last year was persuaded to voluntarily remove it after hearing the community's disapproval of that symbol...