It's all about flash and mindless rebellion with these people, substance and morality take back seat to superfical feel-good "advocacy."

What do you think the reaction would be if they let an "Artist" put down an flag of a nation like Iran by this same crowd?

"How do you know when Hillary Clinton is lying?".."When She opens her mouth to talk."Neal Boort

This is why every parent with a brain should home school their children.

Look up Calvert and Keystone.

Calvert is curriculum for the younger ones and Keystone is the high school curriculum.

Excellent and any parent can do it. More importantly, your children will get a Wonderful education.

AND OUR FLAG will be on the wall.

"Whoa! Come on man, get a grip.

Some girl from Maine lays down a few flags at a college, and it's suddenly a call to arms. Ha!

More hot air about a non-issue from WTH.

Tiger, the wheels are coming off. "

:p

(anticipated Leon flamethrowing post.... tick... tick.....)

* * * SOCKS THE CAT '08 * * *
For REAL Change

Did any of you bother to read the article linked to by her name?

For once I was encouraged by the student response because 95 to 98% of the people refused to walk on the flag.  Even she said ""It sparked conversation and thought about how we feel about our flag, which I think is very important. It was a very hard thing for me to do, to put the flag on the floor," she said. "

This wasn't so much art as it was a poll and while distasteful it at the very least elicited honest information, unlike the condescending, heavily leading polls I'm used to.

So, this time I applaud her...  Just don't do it again.  Grrrr.

David in Missouri

A public school, supported by taxpayer dollars, where you cannot speak the word "GOD", but now you can walk on the flag.

Where I grew up, this never could have happened and instead of sparking a conversation, it would have ended with a bloodied nose.

Does she now intend to dispose of the desecrated FLAGS in the proper way?

Maybe the artist has not had that lesson yet!

Would it be too much to ask that she take a trip through a ward at a VA hospital?

"Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

This "artist?" was conducting an experiment?

Ok so she sat in the halls of the school and counted how many stepped or did not step on the flag.

What was the scientific conclusion?

B...S...

This sad excuse is just that.

A sad excuse to desecrate OUR FLAG!

On reading this, I was tempted to drop an email to this Kalikow person. But then I re-read his "statement."

"Art in all its forms is important. The anger that was experienced today. Students push the boundary of what learning is. First Amendment rights, freedom of expression. We share in a state of expression."

Any "college president" who could release such meaningless, ungrammatical nonsense probably wouldn't understand anything I sent him anyway. A complete tool.

the nutty provost is answering his phones so you should politely express you views directly.

As an Air Force retiree, and one who has lost many friends to both enemy fire and training accidents (including one crash right in front oe me), one thing they ALL had in common when they died was that "piece of cloth" on their flight suits.

That same "piece of cloth" was draped their caskets, and a representation of that "piece of cloth" adorned the tails planes that flew over in the Missing Man Formation.

Damn these people to hell.

In addition to the flags, Ms. Crane could have placed mutilated Bibles on the floor.  I'm sure the college administrators would have found that innovative and artful.

But can you imagine the outrage on her campus if she had used a Koran as part of her Art?

"empty showboating", "exercise in desecration", "circle-jerking of the hatemongers", "self-loathing, anti-Americans", "Marxist work shops of the Weather Underground, the SDS, or the equally Marxist NEA". I can't tell: Is WTH in favor of this project or against it?

I can see why people would be upset about putting the flag on the floor where people might walk on it, but it is interesting to see how many people would avoid the flags, and it's already spurring discussion on this site.

Having served 20 years for this country and idiots like her, I would have been tempted to pick up the flags. Although, that would have prompted an altercation which is probably what she wanted.

Another successful brainwash at UMF (Univ of Moronic Fools). 

I am so incredibly disappointed in your repsonses.

First of all, she made the flags out of duct tape and originally put them on paper so they wouldn't be on the ground. According to the article, she removed the paper because people were falling on it.

Most importantly, it is very clear that she didn't do this project in order to make people walk on the American flag, she did it to make people choose not to walk on the American flag and to study how many made the choice.

How many times a day do you walk by a flag, in front of a building or on someone's car, and not notice it? How many times when you do notice it do you actually make some adjustment in your own life in response. The point of this project seems to be to create flags that you can't ignore. Every person who walked down that hallway had to make a choice, a choice that I suspect you guys want more people in this country to have to make. The choice is: either you acknowledge this flag and go out of your way to show it some respect, or you might as well be walking all over it. Isn't that a dichotomy that you guys want complacent, naive liberals to have to think about more often?

Most of the time we don't have to make that choice, and we don't have to pay attention to the flag.  She forced people to do both.  I think you should be heartened by how few people stepped on those flags, and I'm impressed by the cleverness of the project. Think a little bit beyond your knee-jerk reactions for once and see the potential in this sort of exercise.

Just think about it for a minute. What is more disrespectful towards the American flag than mass producing cheap plastic ones that are sold at dollar stores to be adorned on car antennas? How about the MSM's relentless degradation of the flag by posting it all over their newscasts just to attract ratings? I bet you any of these people who do that could care less about the flag because they just simply think it's some sort of fad or fashion statement. I bet you that they have never even heard of Betsy Ross, who is supposed to be the architect of the flag. Most likely, this young woman does. Nor do I believe they have heard of Francis Scott Key, who passionately wrote the Star-Spangled Banner from the porthole of a prison ship because he saw that our flag was still there.
Now I can't say that what she's doing is a happy, positive salute to Old Glory. Clearly, she understands the symbolism of putting the flag in a pattern of distress because she probably opposes the war. I may know better than that, but hey, it's a free country, and she has the right to express her opinion the way she wants to, whether you like it or not. After all, the KKK and Neo Nazis are also afforded the same right, so why not her?
Later, losers.

"Ninety-five to 98 percent of the people didn't walk on the flags..."

I wonder how many did not tread on the flags out of honor to the flag versus not wanting to damage someone's art?

Since Ms. Crane was not forced to desecrate the flag, I don't believe her decision was "hard".  "Hard" would have been telling your teacher to 'shove it' when they suggested this debacle, knowing that your grade will suffer.  More importantly, "hard" is all the men and women that suffered and died so you could be a smartass, safe and sound, surrounded by Leftists administrators cooing anarchy and debasement in your ear.

I have a suggestion for Ms. Crane and the shriveled-up shrews of UMF's administration:

Go to the nearest "hood", reenact Seinfeld's Michael 'Kramer' Richards' implosion on stage at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, and count how many "responses" you get.  Afterall, the "N-word" is just a symbol too.

More examples of turdblossoms without the blossoms.

RRAM Tough! 

Have a student put an Islamic flag, a ERA-symbol (feminist) flag, or the Rainbow flag on the floor for students to tramble and see how long the staff at this college 'tolerate' this 1st Amendment expression. They won't.

This is why this exericse is nothing more than hate speech supported by aging hippies, Marxists, and leftist.

Ms. Crane is forty years old. But I guess a 40-year-old college student can be as credulous as puppy-brained teenagers.

Her defense of her motives is lame, the project has nothing to do with art, but she gets her name in the papers -- which I would wager was her real motive.

Freedom of speech is enshrined in the Constitution. But why would you do this if you actually revered that right? Rights are accompanied by responsibilities. If she is who she claims to be, she would not have designed this "art project" in this manner.

  Hello. It is I, Mr. American Flag*, 20 year Navy vet, current American Legion Color Guard. I have left standing orders to be contacted first on all flag related matters.

Title 18, Part 1, Ch. 33, Section 700 has been struck down by the Supreme Court on 1st amendment grounds. That was for defiling the flag on free speech grounds however, maintaining on the ground may still stand. Oh, and flags made from duct tape count.
(a)

(1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(b) As used in this section, the term “flag of the United States” means any flag of the United States, or any part thereof, made of any substance, of any size, in a form that is commonly displayed.

Maine has it's own uniform flag law.

§ 254. Mutilation
No person shall publicly or openly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or vy word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield. Any violation of this section shall be a Class E crime.

This is also unenforcable as it probably violates the 1st amendment.

So what this college student was doing was not against the law.

More important, mutilating a Mexican Flag on U.S soil, now that can land you in jail mister!

http://www.krqe.com/Global/story.asp?S=8103472

An Albuquerque jury today convicted a University of New Mexico student who hauled down and ripped apart a Mexican flag flying over the campus last year.

Thank God this country has it's priorities straight. ** 

* As the guy in the next cubicle affectionately has labeled me.

** Yes. that was sarcasm.