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Al M. Jones, a freshman defensive end on the LSU football team who is black, says the squad has remained too quiet on the issue. Some players remain neutral because they feel fans are waving the flags to support the team, he says.
Following the arrests of the three hecklers, Jones says that there is no doubt the flag has become a disturbance. “On this campus, they have the right to regulate anything they want to if it is disturbing the peace,” he says. He adds that...
Jones says he understands O’Keefe is trying to find a compromise that most people, including “a lot of good old boys, southern white men,” will accept.
However, Jones says that the delicate political balancing act is no excuse.
Rounding off a year where the “intelligent design” debate has kept the church-state distinction in education at the forefront of national attention, the University of California (UC) has recently been sued for violating the free speech of evangelical Christians. The suit—which...