Recent protests against the University of Texas at Arlington’s display of the Vietnamese flag has led the institution to strip all 123 international flags from its Nedderman Hall, where they honored the countries from which its students had come, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported today. The protests, led by Vietnamese-American students and community members and backed by some state legislators, had asserted that to display the Vietnamese flag was to honor a despotic country from which some of them had fled after the Vietnam War. A rally against the flag last month drew 3,000 people (The Chronicle, May 1). The university caved in to the protests after a state lawmaker said legislation would be introduced that would “strip funding for UTA as long as that flag flew.”