Missouri

[ktheodos]

What are your thoughts about the University President resigning?

[michele2042]

Personally I support the students in this matter and I'm happy the outcome is what it is.  I hope there will be positive changes.

[lvstephanie]

I think this is a sign of how scarey this mob-mentality has gotten. No longer do we care about due process of law. Rather we are kowtowing to radicals groups without gathering all of the facts, and debating the issue in a rational manner. Did the president shout racial epithets? No. Did the president paint swastikas? No. If anything, the president / school was trying to alleviate this racial tensions by instituting a new diversity course required for all incoming freshmen.

In addition to taking away due process, these radicals are also eroding our other freedoms. A journalist from the school was told that he wasn't allowed to report the protest by one of the school's mass-media journalist professors among other students, even though he pointed out that the same protections that the students were enjoying while holding said protest were in the same US amendment that protected his freedom of press to report it. The protections of our rights in the Constitution were not to protect only the side that has the loudest voice, but rather was to protect all types of speech -- even those that we may vehemently disagree with. It is extremely scarey when a journalist professor is teaching by example that the freedom of press can be trampled upon by an irrational mob.

[BlackSheepNY]

What are your thoughts about the University President resigning?

I think it's pretty stupid.  Worse yet is the student who claims he's been on a "hunger strike."  The guy doesn't look very starved to me.  Looks more like he should be sharing whatever it is he eats with the HOMELESS (who really ARE starving).  We're making mountains out of molehills here and we can thank the "Professors" for this idiocy.

[bowrunner]

I do agree with BlackSheepNY that the professors are to blame.  College kids are being taught they are victims and everything must be given to them so now this is how they react.  No one should be surprised and it is going to get worse.  They're being taught that only their point of view is correct and to h+++ with freedom of speech.

[julesday]

My question is why it had to stop only when the football team began protesting. Why not when the others were protesting

[mgint]

there were some legitimate issues but some of the demands made by the crowd were rediculous.

[lynnc35]

Don't know why he is resigning, it really don't bother me either way since I don't attend.

[UGetPaid]

My question is why it had to stop only when the football team began protesting. Why not when the others were protesting

It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the football players been forced to follow through (or not) on their threats to boycott the game given that many of them are there on scholarships. 

[linderlizzie]

My question is why it had to stop only when the football team began protesting. Why not when the others were protesting

“The team's protest threatened immediate economic damage to the university. This is perhaps the biggest issue at play. A contract between Missouri and BYU obtained by the Kansas City Star reveals that cancellation on the part of the Tigers would result in a $1 million fine to be paid to BYU within 30 days of the cancellation.

There are a few reasons that the football team's protest garnered more attention — and was probably more likely to yield results. Given that this is fundamentally a political protest, it probably won't come as a surprise that those reasons overlap heavily with methods of leveraging political power.

First, the team is the public face of the student body. Any number of people who live in the state but don't have relatives in the University of Missouri system likely know student-athletes by name. Butler did a good job of making his concerns known, but having students already known and respected by the community make a similar argument lowers the bar for sympathy to the cause.

Second, the team leveraged pressure on an immediate timeline. Next Saturday, the Missouri Tigers are scheduled to play the Brigham Young Cougars. As Saturday neared, the school was under increasing pressure to resolve the dispute as public attention to the conflict continued to grow. Butler's threat was more dire, of course, but its duration was unclear.

Third, the team's protest threatened immediate economic damage to the university. This is perhaps the biggest issue at play. A contract between Missouri and BYU obtained by the Kansas City Star reveals that cancellation on the part of the Tigers would result in a $1 million fine to be paid to BYU within 30 days of the cancellation.

What's particularly interesting is that the $1 million fine is a flat sum set because "actual damages — including those relating to public relations, radio and television broadcasts, lost profits, and other consequential damages — would be difficult or impossible to calculate," in the words of the agreement.”

Taken from the Washington Post

[linderlizzie]

What are your thoughts about the University President resigning?

I think he folded under pressure. I'm sure it was not only the protests but his cronies that suggested he resign. Sign of the times.

It's a reversal of John F. Kennedy's quote, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

It seems to be all about everyone getting their "rights" without any accompanying responsibilities.

[hawkeye3210]

It's a hoax.

No actual evidence of these events taking place, and even why that is somehow the President of the university's fault. Now, we have the student president claiming the KKK is on campus, only to rescind that claim hours later.

Hunger strike kid's father is a millionaire, making $8.4 million in 2014. He complains about "white privilege" but comes from privilege. It's comical.

[bigedshult]

it is what they woulded so let them try to run it by them selfes

[hawkeye3210]

And now there is video that the millionaire hunger strike kid made the whole story up about getting hit by the car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIiovJ77vsg

[hawkeye3210]

Mizzou protesters who wanted to get the media out of their "safe space" are now complaining that the media is covering Paris and not Mizzou. Can't make this up.

http://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/mizzou-protestors-are-upset-that-the-terrorist-attacks-in-paris-are-getting-more-attention-than-them/?utm_campaign=SFFB&utm_source=BarstoolFB&utm_medium=Socialflow