As racial tensions mount at the University of Missouri, the football team responded by threatening to boycott the remaining games in the season until University President Tim Wolfe resigns.
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Students set up tents on the university’s campus to protest Wolfe’s leadership
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Both Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin resigned Monday, November 9.Â
The students felt that there was little action being taken to combat racism against African-American students on the largely white campus. Jonathan L. Butler, a student at the university, began a hunger strike last week, which ended Monday, after Wolfe resigned.
“I already feel like campus is an unlivable space,” Butler told the Washington Post, “so it’s worth sacrificing something of this grave amount because I’m already not wanted here. I’m already not treated like I’m a human.”
The president of the students’ association, Payton Head, made a Facebook post expressing his frustrations with race relations on campus after being called the N-word multiple times.
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Students’ assoctiation president Payton Head
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Wolfe says that he, “accepts full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred,” and to, “use my resignation to heal and start talking again.”
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