Dale Brigham, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at the Columbia school, announced his resignation Wednesday. But despite his notice, he remains on the school faculty, MU spokesman Christian Basi said in an email to student newspaper The Maneater.
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One Yik Yak post Tuesday night said, “I’m going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see”, prompting more than 100 calls to the police at the university.
“If you don’t feel safe coming to class, then don’t come to class”, Brigham wrote to his Nutritional Science 1034 class. “I will be there, and there will be an exam administered in our class”.
In the meantime, one more university student who also allegedly placed a death threat over Yik Yak was arrested by the campus police on Wednesday in his dormitory. The only way bullies are defeated is by standing up to them. “We are telling these institutions that we will hold them accountable”, he said.
After the message was posted, S&T police said in court records, officers “began receiving numerous telephone calls from panicked and concerned students regarding their safety and welfare”.
Three 19-year-old men have been charged with threatening to shoot people at college campuses in Missouri during race protests. He is accused of sending messages that said, “I’m gonna shoot any black ppl tomorrow so be ready”, and, “I love evil, I can’t wait for Northwest to make the news tomorrow”.
Park appeared in Boone County Circuit Court on Thursday days after two of the school’s top administrators resigned after protests over their handling of racial incidents at the main Columbia campus.
“We’re waiting for you at the parking lots”, another poster wrote.
Hunter Park, 19, was charged Thursday with making a terrorist threat, a felony that carries up to seven years in prison.
“I made a mistake, and I do not want to cause further harm”, he said in an email to KOMU 8.
After the initial gathering outside the Klarcheck Information Commons, where student leaders took to the megaphone and voiced concern for various issues on campus – from campus workers’ rights to the representation of various minority groups – students marched down Sheridan Road and Rosemont Avenue, before returning back to campus for more speeches given by student leaders. “I think women understand it. I think people with a sexual orientation [that is not straight] understand it. I think other people of color understand it…”
While the Missouri protests were triggered in large part by complaints about slurs and other overt racism on campus, a few students at Thursday’s rallies said it’s a subtler brand of prejudice that motivated them to take a stand.
Last week, a graduate student, Jonathan Butler, went on a hunger strike, vowing not to eat until Wolfe resigned.
“It was an event for solidarity, but we wanted to make sure that people at Mizzou knew that as a black community specifically, we are here for them”, Walker-Hartshorn said.
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R. Bowen Loftin, chancellor of the Columbia campus, also announced this week he would leave his position come the end of the year.
