{"id":21246,"date":"2013-03-27T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=21246"},"modified":"2013-03-27T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:53:13","slug":"flags-salute-global-flavor-of-laie-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/flags-salute-global-flavor-of-laie-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags Salute Global Flavor Of Laie College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21247\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/032713_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21247\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/032713_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"032713_5\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/032713_5.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/032713_5.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/032713_5.jpg?resize=335,224 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BYU-Hawaii students display flags from their countries - including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tonga, Australia, Guam, India and Sri Lanka - at a special flag-raising ceremony Feb. 16 during the college&#039;s spirit week. A total of 68 flags were hoisted proudly and simultaneously by students at the campus Flag Circle. Photo courtesy of BYUH University Communications.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brigham Young University-Hawaii is among the most international of U.S. college campuses, with about half of its students coming from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the students celebrated Spirit Week and the school&#8217;s founding by hoisting nearly 70 banners at BYU-Hawaii&#8217;s historic flag circle, all of them held and presented by representatives of those nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a place where we learn to live together, people coming from different horizons, different cultural backgrounds, different countries,&#8221; said Nowah Afangbedji, a junior from Africa who addressed the crowd at the unique flag ceremony Feb. 16. &#8220;I&#8217;m forever grateful for people whose hands have laid the foundation of this school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event commemorated the college&#8217;s groundbreaking in 1955, and many knew of David McKay&#8217;s 1921 vision at the first flag ceremony on his 1921 visit to Laie. A church elder at the time who later became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, McKay foresaw a school that &#8220;would bring students together from all across the globe, and then send them back as learners, leaders and builders in their respective countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brigham Young University-Hawaii is among the most international of U.S. college campuses, with about half of its students coming from..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windward","category-windward-oahu-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flags Salute Global Flavor Of Laie College - 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