for more we could likely to oxford to the university of mississippi where we are joined by dominique scottdergraduate at the university of mississippi and the secretary of the university's chapter of the naacp. dominique, welcome back to democracy now! we just talked to you last week when the vote of the student legislature come the student senate was about to take lace. you voted to take the flag down, but that was just advisory. what happened? >> will, on tuesday, the afc past resolution to take down the mississippi state flag -- the current mississippi state flag from the university. i believe it was 33-15. 33 in favor, 15 opposed and one abstained. right after that, the council post the resolution in support. and on thursday, faculty senate passed the resolution with 14 in favor and one opposing. then the graduate school past theirs. yesterday morning, they took it down. amy: were you surprised? >> i was very surprised. -- it wase in a very very secret. nobody really knew about it. i just woke up. i always check my e-mail when i woke up. when i woke up, there was an e-mail that said th

dominique scott, let's start with you. a vote important today and how did it come about? >> book, the vote is really important today because it is going to essentially put pressure on our senior leadership as well as the city as a whole, as the whole city, showing that students are really rallying together and that we want the flag taken down and we want to institutionalize inclusion here at the university. , you introduce this bill that will be voted on not by the whole student body, but by the student government? explain exactly how you introduced this. >> well, you know, after the tragic event central stone, there's been this national confederateaddress iconography. was as of confederacy and primacy. i felt we are to utilize this momentum to address the symbols. so in late september, i contacted my allies in the naacp on campus and we decided to form a coalition and challenge and take a stand. so many universities across the state had released statements. the student body at mississippi state university released a state