IRVINE, Calif. – The American flag will live to see another day in the lobby of the University of California Irvine student government offices.

The group banned the Stars and Stripes last week on a 6-4 vote after members claimed flags serve as “weapons for nationalism” and that the American flag specifically has been “flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism,” the Orange County Register reports.

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Matthew Guevara, the council representative from the School of Social Ecology and the Advocacy Committee vice-chair, introduced the proposal, writing banning the American flag would create “a culturally inclusive space” and “allow everyone to participate equally and confidently.”

The ban was reversed by a 4-1 veto vote of the student council’s cabinet overt he weekend.

“We see the flag as transcending policy and politics, it represents American values,” Reza Zomorrodian, student council president and chair of the executive cabinet, says.

“We disagree with the legislative council, they see it as a representation of policy.”

The cabinet issued a statement, saying in part:

We fundamentally disagree with the actions taken by ASUCI Legislative Council and their passage of R50-70 as counter to the ideals that allow us to operate as an autonomous student government organization with the freedoms of speech and expression associated with it. It is these very symbols that represent our constitutional rights that have allowed for our representative creation and our ability to openly debate all ranges of issues and pay tribute to how those liberties were attained.

State leaders were prepared to take action to ensure students wouldn’t make a similar move in the future.

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State Senators Janet Nguyen and Pat Bates, as well as Assemblyman Don Wagner and other state leaders, said they were considering introducing a Senate constitutional amendment today to prevent “state universities from banning the flag.”

Nguyen tells the Register she is happy with the executive cabinet’s veto, but she’s pressing ahead with the constitutional amendment.

“I want to ensure this won’t happen again,” she says.

The executive cabinet sought to distance anyone in authority from having anything to do with Guevara’s proposal.

“This misguided legislation was not endorsed or supported in any way by the campus leadership, the University of California, or the broader student body. The views of a handful of students passing a resolution do not represent the opinions of the nearly 30,000 students on this campus,” the executive cabinet’s statement says.