This list included the group wanting Wolfe to apologize and be removed from office, as well as wanting more wide-ranging racial awareness and insertion of a curriculum that would be overseen by minority students and faculty.
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What has startled many is that Ms Click had recently appeared to offer an open invitation to the media to cover the protests. Ratner, an admitted liberal, said a professor at MU-one of the top journalism schools in the country-should know better.
Shortly after Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri, announced he would step down on Monday, a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered peacefully at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, to hold what students called a “March of Resilience”, in solidarity with Missouri.
The video shows protesters arguing with fellow Missouri student Tim Tai, who was covering the event as a freelance photographer for ESPN, and pushing him away after Tai tells them he has a right to cover the event.
A throng of activists associated with the Concerned Student 1950 group were recorded surrounding journalists and questioning their ethics for wanting access to the university’s Quad where protesters have been living day and night in a makeshift tent city for about a week.
Here’s the grosser irony: Click and Bassler asked other protestors to help provide “muscle” against a university student in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. “If you can help, please let me know!”
Student journalist Mark Schierbecker posted a video Monday night from the campus. The appointment allowed her to review student theses.
The posts were widely disseminated across the Internet and local media.
Click didn’t respond to messages seeking comment Tuesday. “She said she had called the journalists involved to apologize, personally”, Click said in a statement.
The University of Missouri said it is has increased security and is investigating online threats, an announcement that again heightened tensions on the campus after days of turmoil.
This is the sort of elitist bullsh*t hypocrisy I can’t stand. Does someone have to explain to this media professor that the First Amendment to the Constitution includes the right of a free press?
Kurpius said he was proud of Tai and how he handled himself. The school noted that Click “never had a teaching role at the School”. She is a member of the MU Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Science.
The newspaper reported that the Journalism School’s Executive Committee was about to vote “on whether to end her appointment… when Click offered her resignation via telephone”.
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“Hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go”, shouted several protesters, including Janna Basler, the director of Greek life and leadership at Missouri.
