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You don't usually hear about the American flag getting banned from any part of an American University. But that's exactly what happened at the California Irvine this week, as the student government of the University banned the American flag from its lobby after a vote that narrowly passed. The resolution said that the flag can symbolize America's “exceptionalism and superiority," and can be seen as hate speech.

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You don't usually hear about the American flag getting banned from any part of an American University. But that's exactly what happened at the California Irvine this week, as the student government of the University banned the American flag from its lobby after a vote that narrowly passed. The resolution said that the flag can symbolize America's “exceptionalism and superiority," and can be seen as hate speech.







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Penn keeps on producing the best and Fulbright-est students The Chronicle of Higher Education organized the number of Fulbright students and scholars by college and Penn produced the sixth most Fulbright students in 2014-15 with 21 students out of 76 who applied.



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Two members of a Syracuse fraternity have been arrested and charged with misdemeanor hazing after a pledge experienced frostbite in both hands during an outdoor hazing incident. The incident occurred last Saturday as pledges of Nu Alpha Phi were forced to do exercises in a park at night while not wearing gloves.






Penn basketball came out of the gates at the Palestra trying to avoid the number eight. With three games left in their season, a loss against Columbia would have been the Quakers' eighth consecutive defeat and made the Red and Blue's first ever eighth-place Ivy League finish almost inevitable. But after holding the Lions to a paltry 15 percent shooting in the first half, the Quakers held on for a 54-46 win over their Empire State rivals to snap a program record seven-game Ivy losing streak.