11-09-2015, 02:58 PM
(11-09-2015, 02:55 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Tim Wolfe has resigned as president of University of Missouri.It's not the story you want to see covered on ESPN.
He's been facing heat for allegedly failing to address systematic racism on campus. One student said he was called a "nigger" by some guys in a pick up truck. Another campus incident involved a swastika drawn in feces in a dorm bathroom. When the campus' black activist group (Concerned Students 1950) barricaded his car at the homecoming parade and demanded to talk to him about the incidents, Wolfe had them removed by police.
Wolfe had announced that he was working of diversity and tolerance reforms to be implemented in early 2016 and wouldn't resign. But, that wasn't far or fast enough for the protesters and their supporters.
Once 30 black football team members joined the campus' black activist group (Concerned Students 1950) and threatened to stop playing, and the team management supported the players, Wolfe did an about face, apologized, agreed to step down and took full responsibility for his inaction.
Personally, I suspect that the big football money was as much or more a factor in Wolfe's departure than anything else.
Story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...rsies.html