Angry Mizzou prof may lose journalism school ties

On the same day Missouri’s president resigned, IL fired athletic director Mike Thomas following a probe into allegations football players were pressured to play despite being injured.

As Tim Tai, a student photographer at the University of Missouri, on Monday tried to record a protest by activist group Concerned Student 1950, a human chain was formed to keep him off the quad.

“I don’t have – and never had – bad feelings against her and feel bad that she’s been receiving threats and other nasty messages”, Tai told HuffPost.

Meanwhile, the Missouri School of Journalism faculty considered Tuesday whether to revoke the appointing of assistant professor Melissa Click after she was filmed calling for “muscle” in order to eject a student journalist from a Monday protest. When he refuses, Click turns to a crowd and asks for help in removing the reporter.

TOM WARHOVER, ASSOC. PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI JOURNALISM SCHOOL: Yeah – and one thing I need to make clear right away, is that that professor is in a different school.

A social media movement to fire Ms. Click has sprouted up on Twitter, using the hashtag #MelissaClickMustGo.

Chancellor Loftin ordered mandatory sensitivity training for faculty and students, but black students said the gestures were insufficient and called for school officials to implement broader cultural sensitivity training, increase minority staffing and take other steps.

“You’re infringing on what they need right now, which is to be alone”, she says at one point, apparently unaware that a person seeking solicitude would likely not attend a public protest.

If the people who care the most about the University of Missouri and are on campus believe a change in presidents will be a step forward, that should be good enough for those of us watching from afar. On Sunday, Pinkel gathered the entire team and they all made a decision to support their teammates.

The treatment of minorities has been the focus at the state system’s flagship campus in Columbia, and campus groups, including one called Concerned Student 1950, that have been protesting the way Wolfe has handled matters of race and discrimination.

After Wolfe’s announcement, Jonathan Butler, a black graduate student who went on a hunger strike on November 2 and vowed to not eat until Wolfe was gone, tweeted that his strike was over.

A media professor who wishes to prevent the media from covering a news event? “The student-athletes leveraged their power to force people to pay attention”.

University of Missouri Provost Garnett Stokes said Tuesday that Chuck Henson will fill the role.

“I think everyone’s on the same page that racism needs to stop”, he said. The group began handing out pieces of paper that said the group should instead “welcome and thank” members of the media. Will you support me, Coach?’

Faced with the very real possibility that players would boycott Saturday’s game against BYU – something that could have cost the University of Missouri millions of dollars – complaints about diversity and racial tolerance suddenly became very real.