A student at the University of Maine is at the center of controversy after laying American flags all over the floor of one of the school’s main buildings.  According to FOX News:

“Susan Crane … placed hundreds of flags on the floor of the school's student center Tuesday for an art class assignment. She set down the flags in a maze-like pattern to document whether students and staff would step on them.”

The plan was to keep the flags on the floor for 24 hours to document how people would react, but they were removed after 10 at the request of a fire marshal.

Veterans and others are calling the experiment unpatriotic, while Crane contests that it did its job by starting conversation about how people feel about the American flag.  Your thoughts?