He could have let it go when the RA told him to take it down. Nobody else gets to hang stuff on the study lounge balcony anyway. What difference would it make?
As Kyle Johnson stepped outside the study lounge of the fourth floor of Knowles Hall, his temporary room, and began to take down the Confederate flag he hung on the railing, he said a group of about 25 people below started to cheer.
“So I just put it back up,” he said. “The surrender of liberty should not be met with applause.”
But because he left it up, the right for students to display symbols of their choosing from the windows of their dorms is now up in the air.
