On Monday, November 9th, Click would become known as as the protester who grabbed a journalist’s video camera, told him he had no right to be there, then asked for “muscle” to have him removed from the scene. “The story involves the failure of administrators, a student on day 6 of a hunger strike, and creative, fearless students”, she wrote. But a few students, faculty and alumni say the protests and sudden resignation of the president and chancellor are the culmination of years of racial tension on the state’s flagship campus.
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(Halee Rock/Missourian via AP).
In this November 9, 2015 frame from video provided by Mark… Its members besieged Wolfe’s vehicle at the parade, and they have been conducting a sit-in on a campus plaza since last Monday. What role should the students play going forward on this campus of about 35,000 students, where only 7.2 percent are black? The school said no weapons were found. The white suspect, identified as Hunter Park, was arrested at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, where he is a student. He was taken to jail in Columbia, about 75 miles to the northwest, and booked on a preliminary charge of suspicion of making a terrorist threat.
The posts, discovered Tuesday on the anonymous location-based messaging app YikYak and other social media, threatened to “shoot every black person I see”.
The confrontations occurred Monday, when journalists arrived at the quad to document activists who’d succeeded in forcing the resignation of the university’s president.
Basler did not return messages seeking comment.
There were other threats, and authorities did not say if additional arrests were possible.
David Kurpius, the dean of the journalism school, said Tuesday that Click wasn’t on that school’s faculty. Brian Weimer, with the university police, KRCG TV reports.
Members of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus are scheduled to meet with University of Missouri protesters after the ouster of the university’s top two campus leaders.
“This is not the way change comes about”, Wolfe said, alluding to recent protests, in a halting statement that was simultaneously apologetic, clumsy and defiant.
“I regret the language and strategies I used, and sincerely apologize to the MU campus community, and journalists at large, for my behavior, and also for the way my actions have shifted attention away from the students’ campaign for justice”, she said in the statement.
School officials said there was no threat and Head later apologized for spreading the rumor. The group began handing out pieces of paper that said the group should instead “welcome and thank” members of the media.
“I actually don’t”, Schierbecker is heard saying.
The student body was sent a mass email on Tuesday, asking students to report “hateful/and or hurtful speech” to campus police. A student group called People of Color at Ithaca College announced on its Facebook page that it is planning an on-campus “Solidarity Walk Out” at 1:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) on Wednesday “for all the injustices students of color face on this campus and other colleges nationally”.
Protests again flared Tuesday as hundreds gathered in the shadow of Jesse Hall, the main administration building, for a graduate student-led rally.
A plaza that had been the site of a weeklong sit-in by protesters was entirely empty, and police officers from the campus department and city of Columbia were seen on patrol.
“It’s really disheartening and proves the point of why these protests and boycotts were necessary”, Rodriguez said. “I think that’s a positive”.
“Our focus right now is on the health of Jonathan Butler, the concerns of our student-athletes and working with our community to address this serious issue”, the statement said.
The university responded by setting up committees to recommend specific changes to different parts of the college experience, from curriculum and training to recruitment and campus events and activities.
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Associate dean Chuck Henson was named Tuesday the first-ever interim vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity. “Faculty members in the J-School are taking immediate action to review the courtesy appointment”.
