NBC News. This is the third time it’s been taken down or stolen.“This one was just an escalation when the Confederate flag was put up in its place," Wesley’s campus minister, Bret Gresham, told the news site.Gresham added that students were upset by the theft.“My No.
1 concern is the students and making sure they feel they have a safe environment to come, to live out their faith and be affirmed in who they are,” he explained.The minister, who runs the Wesley Center, discovered the theft and vandalism on Saturday then reported what happened to the local police.The Blacksburg Police Department confirmed to NBC News it had taken a larceny report from Gresham.