“We are excited for the new leadership under Interim President Middleton!” tweeted Concerned Student 1950, an advocacy group named for the year the school admitted its first black student.
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“Mizzou is here, that’s why we wanted to host this”, said I’Yesha Williams, an SFA senior.
The board accelerated the transition of authority from MU Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin to Interim Chancellor Hank Foley, giving Foley the responsibilities of the MU Office of Chancellor effective immediately.
The University of Missouri has gained national attention, after an issue with racism forced the resignation of the school’s chancellor and president.
Sophomore Shacora Hawkins of Chicago, a political communications major, said, “We want more faculty and staff who look like us”.
Park was arrested in a residence hall on campus without any weapons on him.
“I’m gonna shoot any black people tomorrow, so be read”, says his message.
It was apparently aimed at a Missouri university where he had studied chemical engineering for a semester.
Another threatening post also cropped up over Yik Yak.
The University of Missouri at Columbia has been rocked by protests over racial incidents and what was seen by many as an inadequate response by the university administration to those incidents.
About 400 students gathered at the steps of South Building Friday to stand in solidarity with students in the Concerned Student 1950 movement at the University of Missouri. “We have nothing to lose but our chains”, said Purifoy, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in environmental policy. Shaw ordered Park to remain jailed, pending a November 18 court appearance.
Wolfe’s replacement on an interim basis, Mike Middleton was named on Thursday.
Middleton replaces Tim Wolfe as UM System President, after Wolfe resigned his position on Monday following calls from students for his resignation and a football team strike.
“Given the recent turmoil, Deputy Chancellor Emeritus Middleton is a strong transitional figure”, the group wrote in a letter of endorsement posted on its Facebook page and sent to curators.
Meanwhile, students at more than 20 colleges – including at Harvard, Columbia and Syracuse universities – have also been inspired by the Missouri case and are planning solidarity demonstrations this week.
“Students need to be aware of what is going on, but right now there is no active threat on campus”, police spokesman Maj. He was arrested Wednesday in his dormitory.
Students walk outside the University of Missouri Student Center on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, in Columbia, Mo.
This item has been changed to correct the spelling of Connor Stottlemyre’s last name, which was misspelled in one instance as “Stottlemeyer”.
“I am honored to accept the appointment as interim president of the UM System, and lead our state’s premiere university during this extraordinary time”, Middleton said in a statement. Middleton had been deputy chancellor of the Columbia campus prior to his retirement in August.
Stottlemyre studies in Northwest Missouri State University which is seated in Maryville, over 200 miles away from Columbia. The school said no weapons were found.
The university is in the midst of what is called a campus climate survey, measuring attitudes and impressions of people related not only to racial issues, but also religious minorities, gender issues and the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community.
Javaris Bradford, president of the Black Student Union, says the protests at Mizzou gave U students a reason to express their own frustrations with diversity on campus.
Nineteen-year-old Tyler Bradenberg, of St. Louis, was charged Thursday with a felony count of making a terrorist threat. He will be arraigned later Thursday.
The threats showed up Tuesday on the anonymous location-based messaging app Yik Yak and other social media.
Boone County’s chief sheriff’s deputy, Maj. It added that Park was not within or nearby the campus when the threat was created.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students walk to the Capitol on November 12, 2015.
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Ashlye Horton, 25, studies in the School of Social Work and said the problem she sees is that students and teachers often avoid discussing racism altogether.
