My Controversy

http://campusreform.org/?ID=6335

This article details the student legislation that banned the American flag (or any other national flag) from a common area on the University of California, Irvine campus. Some students reportedly found the presence of the American flag in the common area to be offensive, or non-inclusive of all of the University's students. The article comes from a website called campusreform.org, which is dedicated to examining newsworthy events on college campuses.
The headline of the article is intended to catch the reader's attention and invoke anger, by referring to the American flag as offensive and calling the use of the term 'inclusive' into question. The image of a cracking flag creates an image of desecration. The article itself incorporated many direct quotes from the bill (R50-70), presenting the bill as condemning and senseless.
It is worth noting that higher ranking administration has since vetoed the bill (see link above). The article is of personal interest to me, because as an American citizen attending a University, I believe that the American flag should be present on American Universities. Students are free to interpret flags as symbols of different things, and are free to take offense to them as they please. However, public universities are American institutions.