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NATION, Page 23American NotesTEXASAntiwar or Antichrist?
When antiwar activists look at an inverted Y inside a circle,
they see a symbol for peace. But some school officials in Pasadena,
Texas, detect something satanic: an upside-down broken cross that
signifies the defeat of Christianity. This week they will vote on
a new student dress code that would allow principals to outlaw the
sign.
School administrators learned the symbol's devilish
significance at a seminar on cults conducted last spring at the
University of Houston. (The peace sign was devised by British
pacifists who combined the semaphore signs for N and D, standing
for nuclear disarmament.) The proposed ban has drawn some wry
comments from students. Quipped a twelve-year-old: "If they ban
peace symbols, they'll have to ban basic geometry because of all
its lines and circles."