Butlers said he will stay on a hunger strike until either the University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigns or his organs fail. Today, I will again.
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Wolfe said in a statement that he has spoken with both Butler and Concerned Student 1950 and will continue to have conversations with others interested in affecting change. What he is doing is not just for the campus at MU, it is for the entire state. “I want him to know I stand with him, not as a senator but as a human being”.
Also this week, members of the Department of English sent a letter to Wolfe expressing frustration with another university leader: Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.
It was the group’s second letter asking Loftin to “speak out publicly and forcefully”, against a particular anti-Semitic action on the campus. More students were on their way, the organizers said.
Cohen cited reasons of low campus morale among faculty, staff and students as a reason for failure of leadership. That group in a separate protest last month blocked a vehicle Wolfe was riding in during the university Homecoming parade and were removed by police.
Students proceeded walking through campus chanting and calling for a shutdown.
In a letter to the Board of Curators, Butler accuses Wolfe of failing to respond to student concerns, which include the use of racial slurs on campus and the removal of graduate student health insurance subsidies.
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Wolfe has recently come under fire from members of Concerned Student 1950, and especially MU graduate Jonathan Butler, for failing to adequately address student activists’ concerns about racism at MU.
