On April 30, as protesters sought for the second time to replace Old Glory with the Palestinian flag on the University of North Carolina campus at Chapel Hill, only the swift intervention of patriotic Pi Kappa Phi brothers prevented this outrage.
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As the crowd tried to drown him out, Roberts refused to stop: “To take down that flag and put up another flag, no matter what other flag it is—that’s antithetical to who we are, what this university stands for, what we have done for 229 years.”
Interim chancellor Lee Roberts had fitting words to mark the occasion, spoken to the face of the mob itself: “This university doesn’t belong to a small group of protesters. It belongs to every citizen of North Carolina. . . . That flag belongs to all of us.”
Here’s to Chancellor Roberts, and to the young men of Pike, who honored the flag and what it stands for.
