A gutsy student photographer named Tim Tai stood his ground. “I understand why the protesters wanted a safe space”.
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“We can debate the ethics of whether I should take the photo or not later”, Tai said. Disparaging attitudes toward media are, unfortunately, all they know.
“You don’t organize a mob to attack a student”, Gainor says of Click.
No matter what you think of their cause, the intimidation was a serious mistake.
“I’m a little anxious about what it means for recruiting students of color and diverse people to the campus for the next couple of years”, Kurpius said. It’s part of the point of coming to campus.
Chuck Henson, interim chancellor for inclusion, said during a conference call with reporters on Thursday that it was a “mistake…to get into hurtful speech”. “You can sleep there”, Kratzer said. And report there too.
Photographer Tim Tai, who was on assignment with ESPN, was trying to take photographs of the protestors when members of Concerned Student 1950, the activist group that raised awareness about racism on campus, told him he needs to leave. “But you need to go”.
“He was like “get out of my face” and he pushed her back”, Briahna Martin said. Click said. “I need a few muscle over here”.
Faculty members also get into the mix. She said his dignity “speaks well to the Journalism program at MU”. “I detest its lack of historical context and investigative journalism, and its drive for ratings through fantastical and voyeuristic stories”. Click should go practice thought control on her own dime and time. “It all feels so raw”.
If these questions are not answered quickly there needs to be an independent investigation by the Missouri Legislature into these of violations of the fundamental rights of University of Missouri students, faculty and staff. He has reminded editors and staffers to remain courteous toward the protesters. As an example, she said the media has unfairly portrayed people of color in coverage on the war on drugs for decades. “Let’s approach this not as full of angst and anger, but as calm journalists”.
Click issued an open-letter apology on Tuesday and also resigned a courtesy appointment with Mizzou’s school of journalism.
She has since issued an apology and resigned from a courtesy appointment. There was no comment from the university system’s board of curators about the denial of First Amendment rights for a few of its students. MU is also committed to its principles of non-discrimination and its four core values; respect, responsibility, discovery, and excellence.
As a student at the University of Missouri in the ’70s, I learned about the civil rights movement and the role of the First Amendment in a free society. The university’s vice president of student life, E. Royster Harper, called the original decision to cancel the showing a mistake. But it wasn’t until subsequent demonstrations and efforts by campus police to calm tensions following the administrators’ ouster that the university forged into dicey areas when it comes to the First Amendment.
Click says she has apologized to Schierbecker and he accepted her apology. They did this while staging an event certain to attract reporters.
Anyone with a memory or a sense of the campus revolts of the 1960s – over the Vietnam War, free speech and social justice – couldn’t fail to feel the echo.
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