Missouri police mulling charges against professor Melissa Click

You can not push them to get closer and closer. He had as much right to be there as they did, he tried to tell the obstructionist students. “We told them they’re fragile or they’re harmed if they’re exposed to harsh ideas”. So we’re surprised when you see students who have a hard time disagreeing productively. This is the older generation’s fault.

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.

Richard Callahan (pictured with glasses), at Mizzou student protest, Columbia, Missouri, November 9, 2015. Though there is no evidence to suggest this so-called climate was ever more than a mere handful of unrelated incidents, the racial rabble-rousers managed to force both the president and chancellor of the university to resign.

In a longer version of the video of the confrontation posted on Tuesday, Click can be heard mocking the objections of a student reporter identified as Mark Schierbecker, who told her that the protest grounds are “public property”.

Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at the university’s School of Communications, apologized Tuesday to the campus community and to “journalists at large” for hindering a photographer and cameraman who were trying to document the protests over racism on campus. According to her university profile, her research centers on pop culture – “particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture”.

The dean of the journalism school, David Kurpius, put out a statement Tuesday praising Tai’s restraint and reiterating the importance of the First Amendment.

At UCLA, a few students demanded that administrators punish partygoers who wore offensive costumes to a Kanye West-themed party hosted by campus Greek organizations. “You are infringing on their right to be alone”. The incident gives critics of “political correctness” ammunition. Can we express an understanding that we had a “teachable moment”, as America’s first black president would say? “I think they had good intentions though I’m not sure why it resorted to shoving”, Tai tweeted early Tuesday. The message seemed to echo one that appeared on the website 4chan – a forum where racist and misogynistic comments are common – ahead of the deadly campus shooting at an OR community college last month.

And college students are supposed to learn.

The works in question were the critically-acclaimed Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which tells the story of how a lesbian woman came to accept her sexuality, and Persepolis, which details the author’s life growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Crafton officials later reversed their decision to include the trigger warning after facing criticism from free speech advocates.

The university system’s governing body, the Board of Curators, also announced a number of other initiatives, including more support for the hiring and retention of diverse faculty and staff and a full review of all policies related to staff and student conduct. As an example, she said the media has unfairly portrayed people of color in coverage on the war on drugs for decades. Mizzou was in an embarrassing spotlight and they had to go.

They will have learned a thing or two about the press: Chiefly, that people usually cause themselves headaches when berating reporters, no matter what 2016 GOP presidential candidates might say. They’re not weak. They don’t need “protection”.