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Wyoming student’s push to recite pledge of allegiance ignites debate Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:58 PM PDT A U.S. Army veteran's claim that he was denied the right to recite the pledge of allegiance during a student government meeting at the University of Wyoming has touched off a national online debate over free speech and patriotism.   Cory Schroeder, who had served in Afghanistan and is a senior in business administration at the Laramie campus, said the vice president of the Associated Students admonished him not to open meetings with the pledge because it might offend other elected members of the student council.   Schroeder's account was publicized this week by a conservative higher-education watchdog group called Campus Reform and later picked up by the Fox News Channel and other media outlets. Representatives of the university and its independent student government have denied that Schroeder, a former president of the University of Wyoming College Republicans, was banned from reciting the pledge.   "That's just patently untrue. Nothing is preventing anyone from standing up in a meeting saying anything," university spokesman Chad Baldwin said.

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