{"id":617,"date":"2015-03-10T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:50:39","slug":"american-flag-removed-from-uc-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"American flag removed from UC Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&#038;widgetId=1&#038;trackingGroup=69016&#038;siteSection=breitbart_nws_us_sty_vmpp&#038;videoId=28695102\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" noresize marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Irvine, California \u2014 Students at the University of California Irvine (UCI) spoke to Breitbart News Sunday, sharing their shock and disappointment at recent legislation by six members of UCI\u2019s Associated Students (ASUCI) to remove an American flag from their building\u2019s lobby this past Thursday.<br \/>\nA student who spoke with Breitbart News on condition of anonymity that she heard a member of the ASUCI discussing \u201cthe [American] flag and how it triggered people.\u201d She then said she believed a major line of reasoning behind the legislation to remove the flag could have been a \u201cprecautionary step\u201d to prevent a trigger situation where if someone is an \u201cillegal citizen or [they] have citizenship issues, it makes them feel bad.<br \/>\n\u201cBut me and my friends were like, \u2018Dude, you\u2019re in America. It\u2019s the American flag,&#8217;\u201d she added.<br \/>\nThe issue, according to her, was that the flag was placed in a common space, and she felt that if it were placed in a private area like a personal office, it would not have been a big deal. \u201cAnd then there were people who were like \u2018the flag triggers me\u2019 \u2014 that was their exact wording, too.\u201d<br \/>\nShe added: \u201cEverything can be a trigger. How far is it going to go? If everyone says something bothers them about a shared space then that could be a problem because then there will be nothing on any walls.\u201d<br \/>\nUCI student Matthew Guevara, who sits on the Student Association board, authored the resolution (R50-70) to ban the U.S. flag from the association\u2019s lobby wall. The resolution passed narrowly on Thursday in a 6-4 vote in favor, with two abstentions, but was overturned and vetoed on Saturday during a private meeting held by the Associated Student\u2019s Executive Cabinet by a 4-1 vote.<br \/>\nUCI administrators also issued a statement on Saturday following the vote to ban the flag, stating that they do not endorse what they described as a misguided decision\u201d by a political minority that they claim is not representative of the school nor the broader student body.<br \/>\nAn anonymous student told Breitbart that the removal of the flag took place \u201crespectfully. They folded it in the military style and wrote a little note saying they didn\u2019t want it up.\u201d However, she said, she and her peers were still shocked..<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t think they properly represent the interests of average students,\u201d said Chris, a recent UCI graduate who did not want his last name to be used. He said that schools \u201ctalk about how America is a patriarchal and colonial power and all the bad stuff but they totally miss the good stuff about this country.\u201d<br \/>\nChris told Breitbart that he found it \u201cfrustrating to see how ASUCI is using our money\u2026 and this legislation highlights that. This has no relevance to average students\u2019 lives or what we\u2019re doing on campus, so it just feels like a waste of our time and money.\u201d<br \/>\nUC Irvine is a publicly-funded university. On Friday, State Senator Janet Nyugen (R-Orange County) she was considering the introduction of a state constitutional amendment to prohibit \u201cstate-funded universities and college campuses from banning the United States flag.\u201d<br \/>\nFollow Adelle Nazarian on Twitter: @AdelleNaz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irvine, California \u2014 Students at the University of California Irvine (UCI) spoke to Breitbart News Sunday, sharing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,16,14,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-protest","category-equal-opportunity","category-featured","category-first-amendment-rights","category-music","category-social-change","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-14-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}