Mizzou professor resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam

While Brigham is leaving, communications professor Melissa Click, the communications professor who was severe criticized for attacking a student journalist on Monday, remains at her post, having only given up a courtesy appointment she held at the school of journalism (where she did not teach).

“My Teacher had the nerve to email me, ‘If we cancel class, then we let the bullies win.’ Like this is a game or something”, wrote JJ Not Jay-Jay.

“If you give into bullies, they win”, he wrote. The only way bullies are deflated is by standing up to them.

Another University of Missouri professor has offered his resignation following strong criticism on social media.

A few students posted parts of the message on social media and shared their dismay.

The Maneater reports that several students took their concerns about Brigham’s note to Twitter.

Dale Brigham told The Associated Press by email Wednesday that he ultimately backtracked and told students they could take the exam on a later date.

According to KOMO, the school has refused to accept the resignation. The truth is, despite all of the threats on social media, I would still probably feel safe on campus were we to have class. But that’s because I am a white man. I would not feel safe at all were this not the case.

“I know which side I am on”, Brigham wrote. “No one will have to come to class today”.

“I am just trying to do what I think is best for our students and the university as an institution”, Brigham told KOMU 8 News. I think he resigned in protest, and I think he wanted his students to understand that by making a point of announcing it in the e-mail.

On Tuesday, University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe had resigned, as well as Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, in order to end a strike by the football team and a hunger strike by one of the students. “And, I am resigning my position”.

However, once the email was posted online it rapidly went viral, with many accusing him of being insensitive towards students of color with his failure to cancel the class.

But events have continued to move rapidly, and after enduring a deluge of hostile emails, Brigham announced Wednesday afteroon he was canceling the exam entirely and quitting his job. A suspect is now in police custody for posting anonymously on YikYak that “I’m going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see”.