University of Missouri Professor Who Blocked Reporter Apologizes

At the same time, Click’s behavior seems contradictory to what she posted on her Facebook page, where she was asking friends to help her get this story about student fighting racism at Mizzou to national media outlets.

A group of Missouri students called Student Coalition for Critical Action demand removal of a Thomas Jefferson statue from campus. Students have formed a “no media, safe space” to prevent the press from talking to the protesters after they succeeded in having the school’s president and chancellor both turning in their resignations within hours of each other.

Collier told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell it was a “peaceful protest” and Tai was just a victim of the “backlash” from “fed up” students. Collier also said the student journalist was “insensitive” to the “feelings and emotions that [were] present at that time”.

Journalist Tim Tai was told he would have to leave, and that no media had the right to take pictures in the quad, the public area where the hunger strike was being held. They don’t care if Concerned Student 1950 is shedding light on the racist realities that exist at the U. of Missouri, and they don’t if students are being marginalized. Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here.

A woman identified as mass communications assistant professor Melissa Click tries to recruit “muscle” to remove the man recording the confrontation, Mark Schierbacker. “I need a few muscle over here”.

That’s what happened yesterday on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia: Student activists, who had just succeeded in their quest to oust the system president, tried to stop Tim Tai, 20, a student photographer, from documenting what was going on for ESPN.

School officials say they are reviewing the status of a professor with a courtesy appointment, after she was filmed Monday confronting a reporter amid student-led demonstrations on campus.

“I have a job to do”, Tai responds. It is questionable if the April date was not soon enough, if the protestors didn’t believe the president, or if the possible cancellation of next Saturday’s nationally televised football game in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium against Brigham Young University was the determining factor in the president’s resignation. For his part, Jonathan Butler has ceased his hunger strike. At a press conference, Butler was wearing a sweater that read “I love my blackness and yours”. She did not say how many teachers joined the walkout.

In a recent article, Daily Targum columnist and Rutgers football player Julian Pinnix-Odrick explained perfectly the plight of a football player: “It feels like in order to comply with a system that gives us college football players so much influence, we must silence ourselves to ensure that we do not misrepresent our team”. Wolfe, however, did not acknowledge or admit to white-privilege during Monday’s resignation.