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Show Flags Are Dilapidated Editor: Re: A pair of dripping-wet fungus-leg nylons hanging over the edge of the sink and winding around the drainpipe. This was the image created by the flags on the pole in the center of the Circle this morning (Feb. 20) at 7:26 a.m. Two sickly-looking pieces of fabric, freshly wet-cleaned (with 10 one-hundredths one-hundredths of an inch of precipitation), precipita-tion), plastered up against a cylindrical cylin-drical ironing board, waiting to dry into two permanently-pressed wrinkles. wrin-kles. Good day to you, Senator Kennedy! Ken-nedy! Welcome to this University where the symbol of our great Nation Na-tion is so revered. What? a bonfire? bon-fire? Why, that flag is so old and tattered that a lighted cigarette 20 feet away will set it aflame as soon as it dries out. In that way we can follow the custom regarding regard-ing soiled banners without expend ing the energy to lower the flag. Who Is Responsible? But then, Senator, who are you to complain? Directly in front of the building marked "Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines" flies a tri-colored question mark. Which one of the original states succeeded in seceding? When the flag proper waves toward the north, the top stripe blows south. And who added the ruffles to Old Glory? Lady Bird? Get the point? We had a distinguished distin-guished guest who came to o u r campus. And here to welcome him . . . Whose responsibility are the flags on campus? I have nothing against Senator Kennedy, Mrs. Johnson or the flying of our Nation's Na-tion's standard. But why are dilapidated dilap-idated banners allowed to fly before be-fore sunrise in the middle of a rainstorm? Marshall Jay Brown |