I don't know; my question was did Franco seek/get approval, or did they just put it up? Seems like PSU taking it down after one day suggests it was not approved (and I don't agree with that at all).
Wasn’t taken down after 1 day, was taken down immediately after people left the area and went into the stadium.
I am particularly disturbed that a small (area) acknowledgement of 50 years of exemplary service to our university was not acceptable (permission or not) while 18,000 plus flags covering acres of HUB lawn for a political statement (so large that the entire HUB lawn was rendered unusable by the student body) was approved and supported. The HUB lawn serves the entire student body as a gathering place for a variety of activity.
Regarding free speech, the Palestinian memorial could have received approval for a 10’ by 10’ space at Barron’s Arboretum …
Barron told us the Palmer Museum needed relocated to the Arboretum to accommodate the 100,000’s of visitors, seems like this would be a high visibility location.