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A new lawsuit against the Iota Epsilon Sigma Chi fraternity at the College of Charleston accuses members of hazing and stalking a pledge over several years.
Print Re “City and state symbols should honor our past” (April 2): The letter writer suggests the state flag should be updated. She writes it is “hypocritical” because the California grizzly bear is extinct. Symbols are open to interpretation, of course. But the bear on California’s flag is the one adopted in 1846 by William Ide and the Bear Flag Revolutionaries in Sonoma, who proclaimed California a republic when it was ruled by Californios attached to Mexico. When the California Legislature designated it as our state flag in 1850, the lawmakers said it was “a symbol of strength...