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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...
...displaying the flags to free expression. We and most others have never questioned this right. Preoccupation with this point distorts and distracts from the true issue: by continuing to display the flags despite their clear injury to the sense of wecome of Blacks and others on Harvard's campus, Kerrigan, Tim McCormack and Dianne Reeder confirm that the concerns of Blacks are worthless to them, even worthy of abuse...
...article then goes on to describe an amendment by council member Yared Belai '92 to ask the students involved in the flag debate, Bridget L. Kerrigan '91 and Timothy P. McCormack '91-'92, to take down what Belai deems "offensive symbols." On behalf of the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, we must warn against this step toward the politicization of the Undergraduate Council and ask that the council refrain from taking a position on the Confederate flag issue...
...When I got into Harvard, it was an opportunity to go someplace that at one point excluded Irish, at one point excluded Catholics, at one point excluded women, and I'm all three. And I figured, what an opportunity," Kerrigan says...
...graduating senior, Kerrigan has about two months left at Harvard. She maintains that the flag will stay at Harvard as long as she does--until both head home to Virginia after Commencement...