Mizzoui prez out, succumbs to the social pressure

[JohnR! 5,495]

These are all issues they will need to address with their colleges. IMHO, that is it a state U makes it all the more theirs, because there is no state without the people. It is their school, because without students, the school serves no purpose.

From the outside all we know is that conditions led to the events of last week. People were dissatisfied. People protested. People quit.

I'm sure the FB players have some sort of contractual obligation to play.They get scholarships. They can choose not to play but then they would not only be forfeiting the game but their enrollment. Teachers get paid to teach and not just cancel classes on their own personal whims....to change their curriculum and have 'teach ins'.

Mizzou is a state school not a private one. Its not 'their school'.

What did people want specifically. For them to clean up the walls and scream while they did it? I dont have any vested interest in Mizzou nor their ex Prez. While I have no doubts it could have been 'handled' better. No ones suggested what real tangible things those would have been.

[Sousuke 1,214]

These are all issues they will need to address with their colleges. IMHO, that is it a state U makes it all the more theirs, because there is no state without the people. It is their school, because without students, the school serves no purpose.

From the outside all we know is that conditions led to the events of last week. People were dissatisfied. People protested. People quit.

It does raise a concern of mine however. What this event showed is that student athletes have immense power when in a union.

Personally I don't think athletics should hold so much sway over a university. The point of the university is higher education. Because athletics bring in funding they get quite a degree of sway.

This may have been a good cause, but the next time might not be in the interest of the school or the student body.

[heo luoi 206]

Ultimately I think nothing in the media really screamed extreme except the reaction. No violence...etc. Not that the things that happened were good. But why did the change escalated to some starving college guy, literally starving himself. Why couldn't the change effected be the change they would've wanted the Prez to do vs simply just firing him. It wasn't protests to enact change and escalate to ousting ONE guy. It immediately escalated to that. That doesnt seem to make a whole lot of sense IMO.

Ultimately the problems there remain unfixed.

I dont see / know what the next old rich white guy will do and neither does anyone there it seems. Unless they leapfrog this to get a 'minority' candidate, whom likely is not vetted well and quickly placed to cater to the masses.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Mizzou Student Body President's KKK Warning Turns Out to Be Hoax

http://www.dailywire.com/news/1039/mizzou-student-body-presidents-warning-about-kkk-james-barrett?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=111115-news&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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James Barrett

November 11, 2015

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Payton Head, the University of Missouri Student Body President who's unsubstantiated allegation that racist comments were directed at him helped spark the outcry by activists that led to the resignation of the university president, made another claim Tuesday that turned out not just to be unsubstantiated but patently false.

Tuesday the student body president at the heart of the movement that ousted both University President Tom Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen

Loftin posted on Facebook that there was a "confirmed" Ku Klux Klan presence on campus.

"Student please take precaution," wrote Head in a Facebook post. "Stay away from windows in residence halls. The KKK has been confirmed to be sighted on campus. I'm working with the MUPD, the state trooper and the National Guard."

By:

James Barrett

November 11, 2015

1 Comment

Payton Head, the University of Missouri Student Body President who's unsubstantiated allegation that racist comments were directed at him helped spark the outcry by activists that led to the resignation of the university president, made another claim Tuesday that turned out not just to be unsubstantiated but patently false.

Tuesday the student body president at the heart of the movement that ousted both University President Tom Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin posted on Facebook that there was a "confirmed" Ku Klux Klan presence on campus.

"Student please take precaution," wrote Head in a Facebook post. "Stay away from windows in residence halls. The KKK has been confirmed to be sighted on campus. I'm working with the MUPD, the state trooper and the National Guard."

However, TheBlaze reports that a "short time later" an official with the University of Missouri Police Department refuted Head's claim, telling the outlet there is "no Ku Klux Klan on campus."

Head pulled the post and issued an apology for the "misinformation" which he said he got from "multiple sources."

I’m sorry about the misinformation that I have shared through social media. In a state of alarm, I was concerned for all students of the University of Missouri and wanted to ensure that everyone was safe. I received and shared information from multiple incorrect sources, which I deeply regret. The last thing needed is to incite more fear in the hearts of our community. In the future, please receive emergency updates from MUalert.missouri.edu or @MUalert on Twitter ONLY.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Ultimately I think nothing in the media really screamed extreme except the reaction. No violence...etc. Not that the things that happened were good. But why did the change escalated to some starving college guy, literally starving himself. Why couldn't the change effected be the change they would've wanted the Prez to do vs simply just firing him. It wasn't protests to enact change and escalate to ousting ONE guy. It immediately escalated to that. That doesnt seem to make a whole lot of sense IMO.

Ultimately the problems there remain unfixed.

I dont see / know what the next old rich white guy will do and neither does anyone there it seems. Unless they leapfrog this to get a 'minority' candidate, whom likely is not vetted well and quickly placed to cater to the masses.

The student starving himself to protest white privilege, Johnathon Butler, comes from a family with a net worth of 20 Million and a father that made 6 million last year.

I can understand how white privilege got him so worked up.

[heo luoi 206]

well said http://www.youngcons.com/brilliant-missouri-student-makes-facebook-post-about-the-protests/

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Missouri man, charged with threat to shoot black students, denied bail

By Lakshna Mehta and Anthony Romano4 hours ago

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By Lakshna Mehta and Anthony Romano

COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) - A 19-year-old white Missouri man charged with making terrorist threats on social media to shoot black students at the University of Missouri campus was denied bond on Thursday, and court documents said he expressed a "deep interest" in a recent Oregon school massacre.

Hunter M. Park, of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, appeared in Boone County Circuit Court days after two of the school's top administrators resigned after protests over their handling of racial incidents at the main Columbia campus.

Police said Park's threats had circulated on social media, including a messaging app called Yik Yak, where an anonymous post tagged "Columbia" late on Tuesday read: "I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see."

Park was arrested on Wednesday at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) in Rolla, where he is a sophomore studying computer science. S&T is part of the University of Missouri System and Rolla is about 95 miles (153 km) south of Columbia.

In documents filed with the court, Missouri campus police described locating Park at his dormitory room in Rolla, where he acknowledged the threats were "inappropriate."

Park admitted using a quote associated with the shooter at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, the documents said. That Oct. 1 massacre left 10 dead including the shooter.

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In one threat, Park said: "Some of you are alright. Don't go to campus tomorrow." University of Missouri officer Dustin Heckmaster said that quote was believed to have originated with the Oregon shooter, Chris Harper-Mercer.

Court documents said police asked Park why he used that wording, and he replied: "I don't know ... deep interest."

At Thursday's bail hearing, Park appeared via video conference from jail, wearing black-and-white striped shirt and pants. No plea was entered on his behalf.

His attorney, Jeffrey Hilbrenner, argued for a $10,000 bond, home detention and restricted use of technology, saying Park was not a danger to the community.

"The investigation does not show that he had the capability or the mechanism to carry out the threat," Hilbrenner said of Park, shown on the screen standing with his hands behind his back. His parents and two brothers attended the hearing and did not speak to the media afterward.

Hilbrenner said Park had medical issues that were exacerbated by his jail stay, but did not describe them.

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Boone County Circuit Judge Kimberly Shaw denied the defense request on bail after the prosecutor argued Park was a threat to the community. Park's felony review hearing is scheduled for Nov. 18. A $4,500 bond was initially set after Park's arrest, but was then withdrawn.

If convicted, Park faces up to seven years in jail, according to the Missouri General Assembly website.

The Missouri incident is one that has raised tensions on U.S. university campuses, where marches or walkouts have taken place this week as students protest what they see as school officials' lenient approach to racial abuse. Hundreds of students on several U.S. campuses wore all-black clothing on Thursday in a show of solidarity.

Also on Thursday, messages were posted online threatening to murder students at the historically black college Howard University in Washington. Howard President Wayne Frederick said his school was working with law enforcement and had increased campus security.

"We do see this as a growing national problem," Frederick told CNN.

The Columbia campus is 115 miles (185 km) west of Ferguson, Missouri, where a white policeman fatally shot an unarmed black teenager last year. The campus has become the epicenter of student protests after several black students said they were abused there. Also on Thursday, Missouri named an African American alumnus, Mike Middleton, as interim president. [L1N1373F4]

Sympathetic gatherings have taken place at Yale University, Ithaca College in New York, Smith College in Massachusetts and Claremont McKenna College in California. On Thursday in Virginia, more than two dozen black students at Virginia Commonwealth University occupied the president’s office asking for more black faculty members.

Students at a number of other U.S. schools, including Cornell University, American University and New York University are posting online about “how to get the conversation going about race issues,” Raven Fowlkes-Witten, a junior at Smith College, told Reuters.

Fowlkes-Witten, who helped organize a walkout at Smith on Wednesday, said there are about 40 people talking online so far.

On Wednesday, another 19-year-old white college student in Missouri was arrested for making threats on social media against blacks. Connor Stottlemyre, a student at Northwest Missouri State University, was arrested by campus police in Maryville for threatening violence.

Stottlemyre was charged on Thursday in Nodaway County Circuit Court with making terrorist threats, a felony. According to a criminal complaint, he posted a threat on Yik Yak on Nov. 11: "I'm gonna shoot any black ppl tomorrow so be ready," and "I love evil, I can't wait for Northwest to make the news tomorrow."

No bond has been set, pending an initial appearance scheduled for Nov. 17.

(Reporting by Anthony Romano, Madi Alexander and Lakshna Mehta in Columbia, Missouri, Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, Ian Simpson in Washington, Gary Robertson in Richmond, Virginia, and Melissa Fares in New York; Writing by Ben Klayman and Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Matthew Lewis and David Gregorio)

[heo luoi 206]

Brilliant Missouri Student Makes Facebook Post About the Protests

Missouri has taken a beating with all the protests about racial insensitivity.

The whole situation began because an inebriated student began using racial slurs, which led to members of the football team refusing to practice or play.

The University of Missouri system’s president, Tim Wolfe, and chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, were forced to resign thanks to radicals who deemed the school had done little to combat racism.

Here’s a fantastic take by a female student at Mizzou regarding the current situation…