Why Delta State is the last public university in Mississippi to fly the state flag
Published 6:00 am Monday, September 5, 2016
By Adam Ganucheau
Mississippi Today
... The Delta State Faculty Senate began discussing the flag issue in the fall of 2015. The Faculty Senate sponsored a flag survey sent to professors on campus last school year. In the spring of 2016, the Student Government Association sent its president, along with the seven other universities’ student government leaders, to Jackson to meet with House Speaker Philip Gunn about the flag. Delta State President William LaForge has met with faculty members about the flag several times in the past year ...
“We have established, firmly, that we don’t like the flag. We want it changed, and I heartily embrace that,” LaForge told Mississippi Today ...
Delta State University hosts the most racially diverse student body of any university in Mississippi. Close to 60 percent of the student body is white, while nearly 40 percent is black. Other minorities make up a small percentage of the student body of about 3,500 ...
Going into this year’s legislative session, the flag controversy was near the top of the agenda. Nineteen flag-related bills were sponsored in 2016, and 12 would have mandated or suggested a new flag be adopted. Seven of those, though, had direct provisions which would have required public universities to fly the flag — a possibility LaForge mentioned in his comments to Mississippi Today ...
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