Another Mississippi university stops flying state flag
Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 4:57 pm
Associated Press
... University of Southern Mississippi President Rodney Bennett on Wednesday ordered the state flag removed from the main campus in Hattiesburg and a branch campus on the Gulf Coast ...
"While I love the state of Mississippi, there is passionate disagreement about the current state flag on our campuses and in our communities," Bennett said in a statement. "I am looking forward to a time when this debate is resolved and USM raises a state flag that unites us."
His action came two days after the University of Mississippi's interim chancellor, Morris Stocks, ordered the state flag removed from campus in Oxford. Stocks acted after student and faculty senates adopted resolutions seeking removal of the flag at Ole Miss ...
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