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I am in total agreement with one of Eryk Salvaggio’s claims in his piece, “Campus flag-burning controversy highlights Constitutional freedom.” The classroom is an excellent location for intellectual debate. However, professor Grosswiler may have turned a serious issue into a poor example or a joke. If he had made the other side of the argument clear, that he would give extra credit to someone who spoke out against flag-burning, at the beginning, this controversy might have been avoided. The American flag has been one of the only symbols that has unified this country as one. Why try and take that away from the nation? Our country has become so polarized over the few years that it seems people are at each other’s throats, and the suggested classroom debate has become so intense that people refuse to participate. This controversy has only helped to polarize both conservative and liberal views. I myself am fairly conservative, but to generalize the ideals of conservatives by using the example of Don Imus is adding fuel to a burning fire that no one is now willing to participate in because the flames have risen too high. To say one group is the source of the problem is a severe generalization. I believe the source is the apathy of those who can make the most difference in our world today and that is the students of UMaine and around the world. Michael Maberry, UMaine student and Stodder Hall resident.
