Full Coverage: University of Missouri unrest
After a spate of racially charged incidents on and around the University of Missouri campus, the football team announced that it would not participate in football-related activities and would support a hunger striker’s demand that the university president leave or be fired.
Two top University of Missouri system officials announced their resignations Monday following allegations that they had not sufficiently addressed racial issues on campus. Students danced on the quad where activists had set up a tent city. In addition, the football team announced that it was ending its strike and would resume practicing for this weekend’s football game.
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The University of Missouri’s governing board Thursday appointed a recently retired senior administrator from its flagship campus to be the university system’s interim president.
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The white college student arrested on suspicion of posting a social media threat to shoot black University of Missouri students expressed a “deep interest” in the Umpqua Community College massacre in Oregon, according to court documents.
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Two men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of posting social media threats against black students at the University of Missouri, but both were far from the Columbia campus when taken into custody.
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This week, two different conversations about racial sensitivity on two very different college campuses quickly turned into a national debate on free speech and its limits.
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Hauling a laptop in his bag and wearing an expression of tired concentration, Jonathan Butler looked like another graduate student shuffling across the tiled floor of Jesse Hall.
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One morning, when I was 10 years old, I woke up to find my normally sleepy suburban town covered in swastikas.
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The warning signs circle the protesters’ tent encampment like guard towers: No media allowed.
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The campus coup d’etat was over.
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Tim Wolfe, the embattled president of the University of Missouri System, resigned Monday after months of turmoil with faculty, students and his economically powerful football team in open revolt over his handling of racial tensions.
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Until the late-night tweet over the weekend announcing a boycott by dozens of University of Missouri football players, efforts to oust President Tim Wolfe because of racial tension at the campus in Columbia, Mo., received scant attention.
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After a spate of racially charged incidents on and around the University of Missouri campus, the football team announced this weekend that it would not participate in football-related activities and would support a hunger striker’s demand that the university president leave or be fired.
