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Despite administrative and peer pressures, the student, Bridget Kerrigan '92, said she would not remove the flag, which she said stood for her Southern pride...
...response to both Kerrigan's flag and the University's stance on the issue, several other students became involved in a symbolic free speech debate. Cabot House resident Timothy P. McCormack '91-'92 hung a Confederate flag in his dorm room window as a sign of support for Kerrigan's right to hang the flag, while Cabot House resident Jacinda T. Townsend '92 counteracted by hanging a swastika from her dorm room window, in an attempt to stretch University policy to such a limit that it would eventually ban such offensive symbols...
...LATE FEBRUARY, as the Gulf War was winding down, Bridget Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate battle flag out her Kirkland House window. Cabot House resident Tim McCormack '91 followed suit with a Southern Cross of his own. An outraged Jacinda Townsend '92 responded by hanging a swastika with the words "Racism--No?" out her window...
...Kerrigan, a writer for Peninsula, the letters, phone calls and demonstrations imploring her to remove her flag were perfect examples of knee-jerk PC fascism. Gleefully adopting language straight out of The PC Handbook, she claimed that she was being "marginalized" on account of her Southern heritage. Biased, intolerant North-erners were "pressuring" her, conspiring to violate her freedom of expression...
McCormack, who first displayed his Confederate flag in February from a window facing the Quad, replaced that flag last Monday with an American flag. McCormack had originally hung the Confederate flag shortly after Briget L. Kerrigan '91 displayed a similar flag from a window in her Kirkland suite. Kerrigan continues to hang her Confederate flag...