St. George, Utah -- Trustees at Dixie College have decided that the Confederate battle flag will no longer fly on the campus. Some students had complained that the flag was racist.
The college’s new flag was designed by an elementary-school student who created the image on his computer. The college held a contest for the new design and 50 people submitted ideas. The Confederate flag, which has flown on the campus since 1962, will be retired in April.
Dixie officials decided to replace the flag “to be more sensitive to new students,” a spokesman said. He said the flag meant something very different in the 1990’s from what it meant in the 1960’s, when “a lot of college students across the country were rebelling against the norms.”
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