University Prohibits Student from Flying the American Flag
DURHAM – The proud son of a retired Army officer, Conner MacIver put his patriotism on display at the University of New Hampshire earlier this month by hanging an American flag outside his dorm window.
That lasted about two weeks.
Last Thursday school officials ordered him to remove the flag after someone complained it violated dorm policy that blocks students from hanging anything outside their window.
"I'm so infuriated about it," said MacIver, 19, a freshman from West Ossipee. "This is America and I should be able to hang an American flag."
UNH's dorm policy bans: "Television or radio antennae and any other objects which are placed outside the room window or anywhere on the exterior of the building or adjacent grounds."
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lordsoflolo
Winston, you state you are not an I or R but you say we, the conservative. I say you r n r .
badgerbob
Hey Everyone, Guess what, this isn’t about American Flag, it’s about a student breaking university resident hall policy of hanging material outside of the window. If he really wants to continue to display the flag, why doesn’t he just display it on the inside of said window? It would still be visible to the campus, but would not be violation of policy. (This was the solution for a similar policy close to 20 years ago when I was in college.)
Kleinsee
Take away the school's funding.
MK
Because they have dorm policy that he agreed to? They're not taking away his rights or anybody else's. He can feel free to hang his flag inside his window until the policy is challenged, reviewed, and possibly changed.
Winston Cupp
This country is sick! I am not a R nor a D but an I. But I'm an equal opportunity I in that I dislike all politicians, D or R, equally! I prefer R because I am not aware of any Marxist and there are many in the D. We, the conservatives, will at the very least be majority proof in 2010. We will be done with O in 2014. We need to send all the do-nothing congressmen home after that, set term limits, make the jobs far less attractive by limiting expense budgets, pork, healthcare, pension, etc and send them home after 2 terms. Then let's go after the judiciary through a constitutional amendment or whatever we must do to do away with any life time appointments. The government, all 3 branches are out of control. We the people MUST take the country back.
Faith & Infinity
Im with you Winston.................If we keep fighting amongst ourselves instead of the true problem Washington Dc.....
I said it before if the politicians had to "menial labor "in order to run for office such as Septic removal and mason and carpentry work and the list goes on..............Instead of their silver spoon fed lifestyles most of them have had - not all... .Then have a review of the job they did ...then they could be allowed to run for office contingent on their performance!!!..just a thought lol
Black Conservative from Ga.
People please read the entire article. I served in the USMC for 14 years and some bases had similar rules. The kid is handling this better than you so called adults. Why does every topic here has to have hateful rhetoric and name calling. There's a right way and a wrong way to handle these types of situations. I saw the interview and I applaud his parents because this kid is bright and has some common sense.
Jim Leonard in California, Maryland
I agree, cooler heads need to prevail here. I love my country and our flag - but the kid did agree to a set of rules. Use the flag as a curtain - you can still be proud of it!!
Jim on The Fox Nation
It's not the breaking of the rules....it's the discouragement of patriotism in this country that's the real issue here....there are other flag issues popping up in this country everyday...don't deny it...
MK
Have you traced the origin of this policy? I don't have to mess with your point because you actually don't have one on this story. He can fly his flag inside his room. He can try to change the policy. He signed a contract. If there were a policy banning flying the flag I'd be against it just as much as you are. It's not banning the flag. It's banning hanging ANYTHING outside the window. Btw, calling me an ass doesn't help your credibility.
Jim on The Fox Nation
There are policy wonks who want to squash every right in this country....don't mess with my point you ass...
MK
This issue is not about denying patriotism or first amendment rights or anything like it. Sure it's out there but Fox has you acting on a headline. There are rules in many a place which don't allow you to put anything outside of your window. It's a policy issue. Change the policy.
EL_viking
Doesn't this peckerhead realize he is amongst some of the craziest Sororities in America?
I used to party there when I was in college!
Dude, this should be the time of your life!
Jim on The Fox Nation
...and look what you turned out to be....a gas -pumper with herpes and a bum liver.....
Mulder445
More Change you can believe in from the Progressives
MK
Yes. This school's policy was written when Obama came into office just to get the conservative panties in a bunch.
MK
Yes. This school's policy was written when Obama came into office just to get the conservative panties in a bunch.
GI Sean
Hey Vote:
Contact NH House of reps Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes and demand that public funds be taken away from UNH.
Shea-Porter and Hodes are up for re-election in 2010.
Read the school rules as well as the regulations pertaining to hanging of the flag before you run your mouth
IDIOT
Other Things Not to Do with the Flag
Out of respect for the U.S. flag, never:
dip it for any person or thing, even though state flags, regimental colors and other flags may be dipped as a mark of honor.
display it with the union down, except as a signal of distress.
let the flag touch anything beneath it: ground, floor, water, merchandise.
carry it horizontally, but always aloft.
fasten or display it in a way that will permit it to be damaged or soiled.
Vote the Socialists out
Contact NH House of reps Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes and demand that public funds be taken away from UNH.
Shea-Porter and Hodes are up for re-election in 2010.
EL_viking
Come on dude, you go to UNH!!!
PARTY CENTRAL!!!
Maybe if you spent this amount of time trying to get some p**sy, then you wouldn't BE one!!!
Jim on The Fox Nation
Seems to be 'zero tolerance' for good kids these days...like this young man....the eagle scout with the pen knife...the six year old with his cub scout utensils...and the honors student brutally murdered in Chicago....regardless of senseless rules and regs...
GI Sean
Read ALLLLL the article with the links.
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/10/16/foxfriends_promote_cause_of_persecut...
More of that 4 letter word for ya
GI Sean
Jenny: "If it was a lib, they wouldn't have said anything."
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!!!!
Lonnie10
like mostly all American universities, this one is run by anti-American liberals.
Grouchy1
He can hang the flag; just not out his window. Doesn't trample on his rights. There are reasons this rule was put in place, the same priniciple that causes cities to issue city ordinances.
Recon
ANTI USA.....see video....Thousands Protest During Obama Visit http://tr.im/C0YU
San Francisco
Markster
Revoke ANY AND ALL TAX EXEMPTIONS, FEDERAL GRANTS,AND PRIVATE SUPPORT UNTIL THIS POLICY IS REVERSED. Where, oh where is common sense?
chip
Ok then lets revoke University of Connecticut and Vermont and Mass. and also the US Naval Academy they also prohibit this also along with inside the room.
62andAngry
And their phone number is..........? Let's gang up on them....one Marxist moron at a time....
Saginaw Joe
If I were a student there I would tell UNH to kiss my a##, and find myself another University that has some respect for our country.
Fair and Balanced
You don't sound like you could get into ANY university.
ex dem 101
Parents starting putting you kids in pro American schools and boycut the rest that do stuff like this, kids can where flag pins, flag hats,shirts etc.........this is America Land of the free and the brave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MK
Actually you probably shouldn't have a flag hat or shirt because your sweat and body odor will desecrate the flag. Not you only...people in general. But really...did you read the school policy? Or is it the conservative way of doing things...shoot first, ask questions later.
Ron in Cal
Good luck finding them. Hillsdale comes to mind.
Keltic1
I guess showing ones respects for colors is a sin to Commies
ar547
Our Kids are being DeAmericanized by our Socialist Educators!!!!
Fair and Balanced
That's funny. DeAmericanized, eh?
Jenney
American_girl: THat's what I said. Just like the libs find all the loopholes to destroy the Constituion and come within a word of breaking the law, put it on a pole, on the window, on the door, on the car, the main thing is not to feel beaten, to turn it around and get stronger. Already, this has made us more determined not to sit quietly.
Jenney
Don't hang it, put it on a post and fly it. Put it on the window. If it was a lib, they wouldn't have said anything. Virginia and New Jersy get out to vote on NOv. 3rd. We will by flying our flags and display them proudly.
winnie
I agree Jenney.....post the fly! This is America!
Atticus Finch
Just saw the young Mr. Maclver being interviewed on Fox and Friends. Naturally thought he was going to be a rabid conservative jerk, I was wrong. The UNH student made a good solid point, was respectful of his school and admitted he was at odds with school dorm policy. He was going to try to change that policy through the system made available to students. Good for him. Now, the beady-eyed guy interviewing him came across as a jerk, kept trying to make more of it than there was. Here's hoping Mr. Maclver succeeds.
Black Conservative from Ga.
That's the way I see it and the kid was very bright. It boggles my mind with some of these rabid people. Rules are rules and I bet if he flies the USA flag, just wait for the liberals to fly God knows what. He handled it the right way.
John.Galt2012
There are no bad policies...just bad policy writers. I contend that the policy was vaguely written on purpose. The real question should be WHO wrote it and for what PURPOSE.
Fair and Balanced
The policy wasn't vaguely written.
john
To REMOVE the FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA from a dorm window after it was flying for two weeks,because SOMEONE was offended is digracefull.
If the flag is disgracefull,then LEAVE the contry.
Educators you have lost your common sense.its just like the zero tolerance policy applying to a 6 year old.
EDUCATORS remove the S**T from you skull and put COMMON SENSE BACK IN.
SEMPER FI>>>>>>hill54
Palin2012
Is the internet being taken over?????
Fair and Balanced
/ / / Wolverine - Colorado \ \ \ wrote proudly:
Just a reminder that all of the teachers in America are DemonRat based. It is once again about control, control and more control. Hilter would be proud of many here in the states.. They arefollowing exactly what his vision entailed with icing of Islam.
Reply: Let's ban the teachers, close the schools. We don't need no stinkin teachers!
Fair and Balanced
Shannon in Texas
I didn't stand up for the Jews because I wasn't jewish.......Now they are coming for us. Who will stand up to them now????? The world laughs.. our enemies don't have to do anything. We will do it to ourselves.. Shame on us!!!!!
Hysteria 101.
Independent in AZ
Misleading headline. The fact that it was a flag had nothing to do with it. Read the last sentence of the summary. No controversy, no story.
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UNH's dorm policy bans: "Television or radio antennae and any other objects which are placed outside the room window or anywhere on the exterior of the building or adjacent grounds."
man from TN
sooooooo.....
use the policy to make your point,read it "exactly word by word" as i see it written here. you could place it on the inside of the window, fly it on your car,HEL, I WOULD PAINT MY SHAVED HEAD LIKE A FLAG AND SIT IN THE FRONT OF THE CLASS AND TELL ANYONE WHO IS"OFFENDED" BY THAT TO GO TO H---!!