University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning following mounting pressure from students and faculty over his mishandling of racism at the school’s campuses.
“I take full responsibility for this frustration and inaction,” Wolfe said Monday aftera series of scheduled walkouts and protests, includingone student declaring a hunger strike, due to theuniversity’s lack of response to several documented incidents of racism.
According to the students involved in the protests, a gathering for the Legion of Black Collegians was interrupted when an intoxicated white student yelled racial slurs at the group. In a recent incident, someone drew a swastika on a dormitory wall using feces.
