They were made during a time of racial unrest on campus that resulted in the resignations Monday of the university system president and the Columbia campus chancellor.
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Michael Middleton, also the University of Missouri’s former deputy chancellor, said he was prepared to take the school’s reins and acknowledged the recent protests over the racial climate on campus: “The time has come for us to acknowledge and address our daunting challenges, and return to our relentless adherence to the University of Missouri’s mission to discover, disseminate, preserve and apply knowledge”.
On Tuesday, the day after university president Timothy Wolfe’s resignation speech, members of the Concerned Student 1950 movement dismantled the tent city they’d set up one week before on the campus quad, determined to stay put until Mr. Wolfe was gone, after weeks of allegations of unaddressed racist and anti-Semitic incidents on campus.
In the meantime, one more university student who also allegedly placed a death threat over Yik Yak was arrested by the campus police on Wednesday in his dormitory.
Chancellor Carol Folt joined the protestors, along with other administrators including Winston Crisp, vice chancellor for student affairs. A few hope to unionize.
“How can we focus on studying if we know we are not valued in our everyday lives?” said Kamil Oshundara, a second-year world arts and culture student and board member of the Afrikan Student Union.
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Students there took to the streets after an October 28 university email warning about racially insensitive Halloween costumes prompted a professor to complain that Yale and other campuses were becoming “places of censure and prohibition”.
“I was glad that I retired”, Middleton said.
Mine Dafiaghor, a 19-year-old marketing major, attended the demonstration and marched alongside his peers. Last week, a graduate student went on a hunger strike to demand the resignation of Wolfe over his handling of racial complaints.
At Chicago’s Loyola University, student Dominick Hall says groups of white guys stop talking when he walks by, and sometimes people grip their bags a little tighter. He says the university is committed to diversity. The university’s governing board also pledged more support for those who experience discrimination and said diversity and inclusion training will become mandatory for faculty, staff and students.
The UM Police Department had increased security on campus following the social media threats.
He is charged with making a terroristic threat, which is punishable by up to seven years in prison. With the threat of storms looming overhead, they packed up and moved discussions to a nearby campus center, the Columbia Tribune reports, where students were assured they could spend the night if they did not feel safe, after two confusing and frightening days of threats and rumors, leading to the arrest of two non-students. Tom Reddin, says Hunter M. Park of Lake St. Louis is scheduled to be arraigned about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, likely by closed-circuit video from the county jail where he is being held without bond.
Heckmater and an officer at Missouri S&T contacted Park in his dorm room and after a brief interview, Park admitted to posting the threatening posts, according to court documents. Several postings have questioned if that really happened. According to the profile, “He will leave a legacy as a generous, resilient leader who forged the way for equality and the rights of minorities on campus”.
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However, many students said the administration wasn’t taking enough action.
