The Missouri Conflict; Parents How Would You Advise Your Football Player Student?

[TatinG]

They really have their priorities screwed up.

[OHMomof2]

People can’t care about both? Of course they can. The headline is a little overdone but considering the source, probably ideal for the audience.

[Zinhead]

Another story of the upset Mizzou activists with a different set of tweets.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/14/mizzou-campus-activists-and-black-lives-matter-complain-about-paris-stealing-the-spotlight/

[jym626]

Oh my. Words fail me. Reminds me a bit of a post I rapidly removed from my facebook newsfeed that ranted on about the idiocy of posting solidarity photos (eiffel tower, R/w/b pages, etc) and instead we should all just get our guns. Really… Umm, no.

[awcntdb]

Has anyone said it any better than Dershowitz re these students?

These are the same people who claim they are seeking diversity. The last thing these students want is real diversity, diversity of ideas. They may want superficial diversity, diversity of gender, diversity of color, but they do not want diversity of ideas.

He nails it. Cannot wait till they hit the real world. It will be funny to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WMDvpqgcUA

Another story of the upset Mizzou activists with a different set of tweets.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/14/mizzou-campus-activists-and-black-lives-matter-complain-about-paris-stealing-the-spotlight/

Stupid is as stupid does.

[HarvestMoon1]

Not sure if this was posted upthread but I find Ben Garrison’s detailed cartoon hysterical.

https://grrrgraphics.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2015/11/13/attack-of-the-cry-bullies-new-ben-garrison-cartoon/

[Hunt]

So, wait a minute–we can discount the views of protesting students because of a couple of obnoxious tweets or comments? Does that mean that I can now discount the views of all conservatives (or liberals, for that matter) because of the comments I read online every single day?

[Ohiodad51]

Well, to say that a generation of liberals have not attempted to do that very thing (implicate an entire group with the ravings of a few nit wits) would be disingenuous. Is it any better if people on the right do it to the “progressives”? No. But I think that after decades of hearing that every one in the south is a racist because of David Duke, or that conservative Christians are all hypocrites because of Jim Baker, it is understandable that some of a more conservative bent may engage in a little “good for the goose, good for the gander”.

[katliamom]

So, you’re in the two-wrongs-make-a-right camp, then, are you?

[Gator88NE]

My only question…should I buy the mug with Ben Garrison’s “Attack of the Cry Bullies” cartoon, or the t-shirt? The mug will last longer, but I could wear the t-shirt to UF’s open house, next Monday…the expression on my son’s face as I walk around campus would be priceless…or even better, when I go to the microphone to ask the VP of “Diversity” a question…

The shirt it is!

[Ohiodad51]

So, you’re in the two-wrongs-make-a-right camp, then, are you?

No. I find both to be dumb arguments. But after being subjected to decades of tut tutting and guilt by association hurled against people with conservative views, I am maybe a bit more willing to cut people a bit of slack when a few rhetorical rocks get tossed back over the fence.

[Zinhead]

The professor who was caught on video calling for muscle is being charged with assault:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article56443200.html

Melissa Click, the University of Missouri communications professor who garnered widespread scorn for trying to physically remove a student reporter from a campus protest, was formally charged with assault Monday morning.

A spokeswoman for the Columbia Prosecutor’s Office said Click was being charged with third degree assault, a class C misdemeanor that carries a possible 15-day jail sentence.

Click was caught on video calling for “some muscle” to remove a student reporter from an area on the university’s flagship campus where protesters had gathered. The protests eventually led to the resignation of University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe and Mizzou Chancellor R. Bown Loftin. Click, however, remains as an assistant professor in the Department of Communications.

Last month a group of 100 Republican state legislators publicly called for the university to fire Click. They were joined last month by David Steelman, a member of the university system’s board of curators.

In response, a group of more than 100 Mizzou faculty wrote a letter of support for Click to the university’s leadership.

Click could not be immediately reached for comment Monday morning.

[Zinhead]

Ex Missouri President Tim Wolfe was in the news today when a confidential Email was leaked. The gist of the email is that he wants a bigger severance package, and, if he does not get it, he will go to the media.

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/columbiatribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/bd/3bdd14a5-4237-5159-bae7-1185aec492a6/56a901e3a56c4.pdf.pdf

The Columbia Missourian has a story on it. It looks like the protests might cost Mizzou up to $25,000,000 in revenues next year.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/wolfe-accuses-um-system-curators-loftin-in-confidential-email-to/article_35b55114-c512-11e5-b3e0-5f0c95e4a123.html

Wolfe suggested that the university might lose $25 million in tuition and fees in the upcoming academic year, as well as up to $500 million in state funding. This is a much worse consequence than the $1 million penalty that the university would have been required to pay for missing a game against Brigham Young University, Wolfe wrote.

The $25 million figure Wolfe cites is in line with current UM System officials’ estimates of lost tuition and fees for next year. MU Chief Operations Officer Gary Ward told Regional Economic Development Inc. board members earlier this month that the university expects enrollment to drop by as many as 900 students next year, according to the Columbia Daily Tribune. Interim UM System President Michael Middleton told the Tribune that the university could lose between $20 million to $25 million in tuition and fees as a result.

[Gator88NE]

…expects enrollment to drop by as many as 900 students next year,

Really? I know total number of applications are down this year, but they must be expecting a massive drop in their yield rate.Either that, or they are trying to convince the state to NOT cut funding by overstating how much they expect to lose in tuition and fees.

[Gator88NE]

And after being charged with assault, a suspension.

Just days after being charged with assault, Melissa Click, the University of Missouri assistant professor of communications who tried to kick student journalists out of a protest in November, has been suspended by the University.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/melissa-click-suspended-mizzou/432564/

[LakeWashington]

My oh my, the ruckus at Mizzou continues. Seems like the University System of Missouri is going to pay through the nose to get rid of what they originally wanted; a corporate guy to run the system. Being like any run of the mill corporate executive, he’s insisting that his Golden Parachute be operable. Looks like they are stuck with having to concede to his demand.

[DecideSomeHow]

I don’t get it. On page 4 of the email, he clearly states the board has offered him exactly what he is due if he had been fired without cause. What exactly is this guy after? I am no fan of golden parachutes, but they are generally written into an employment contract, so it seems to me that the board is just sticking to the original agreement.

[Gator88NE]

Another Melissa Click update:

She’s accepted a deferred prosecution agreement, which includes one year probation and 20 hours of community service. Note that at worse, if convicted, she would have faced as much as 15 days in jail and a $300 fine upon conviction, so this agreement seems reasonable.

She is currently going through the tenure process:

MU officials on Monday said Click, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, will keep her job while she goes through the tenure process.

Click is about halfway through that process, which typically takes about a year. Interim MU Chancellor Hank Foley said professors who are granted tenure generally stay at the university and that those who are denied tenure usually have about a year to leave the university and find a new job.

She really needed to have stayed home that day, and binged watched House of Cards…

[LakeWashington]

A DPA may be the best resolution here, in that the gravity of her offense is acknowledged, but she has the opportunity to make amends and not ruin her career. Her conduct was tremendously dumb and just a bit scary. I hope she has learned a lesson and realizes that even a tenured professor could have been dismissed (or criminally charged) for what she did.

[OHMomof2]

A committee of the Missouri legislature voted this week to penalize the University of Missouri’s flagship campus financially because students there engaged in protests.

State Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R-Jackson) cited student activism as the reason to pass a budget amendment that would exclude Mizzou from any increase in state support for higher education next year, according to local media reports.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/missouri-lawmakers-mizzou-student-protest_us_56be1eb4e4b08ffac124ff95?ir=College&section=us_college&utm_hp_ref=college