Jonathan butler mizzou biography
- Jonathan Butler, a graduate student at the University of Missouri, went on a hunger strike earlier this week in order to get UM System.
- Loss of health insurance for grad students.
- Jonathan Butler, a graduate student at MU, made the decision to go on a hunger strike a couple of days after the Homecoming Parade.
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2015–2016 University of Missouri protests
Series of student protests
| 2015 University of Missouri protests | |
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Student photojournalist Tim Tai in a confrontation with assistant director of Greek life Janna Basler. Tai's attempt to photograph a tented encampment became a major incident in the protests. | |
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Payton Head, student government president | |
In 2015, a series of protests at the University of Missouri related to race, workplace benefits, and leadership resulted in the resignations of the president of the University of Missouri System and the chancellor of the flagship Columbia campus. The moves came after a series of events that included a hunger strike by a student and a boycott by the football team. The movement was primarily led by a student group named Concerned Student 1950, referencing the first year black students were allowed to enroll in the university. The movement and protests were documented in two films, one made by MU student journalists and the other, 2 Fists University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe has resigned over his handling of a series of racist incidents on the college’s Columbia campus. Wolfe was pressured to step down after the school’s football team announced it would boycott all football activities until he was removed from office. Another student went on a hunger strike for several days, saying he would not eat until Wolfe was no longer president. Wolfe, 57, announced his resignation Monday morning at a press conference, saying he takes “I take full responsibility for the inaction.” Watch video of his resignation here. The controversy began in September when Payton Head, the Students Association President, said he was called a “n****r” by a group of men in a pickup truck while on campus. On October 5, a drunk student went onto a stage where the Legion of Black Collegians was rehearsing a homecoming skit and screamed racial epithets, the Kansas City Star reports. On October 10, during the school’s homecoming parade, a group of students, called Concerned Student 1950 (a referenc By Wesley R. Bishop and Andrew McGregor This weekend the University of Missouri, or “Mizzou” as it’s commonly called, became the latest front in the ongoing national movement against racism. Following a string of steady and increasingly hostile acts of hate, Mizzou’s football players joined a campus wide protest, refusing to participate in athletic events until University President Tim Wolfe steps down or is removed from office. The demand follows months of mounting tensions as student activists grew impatient over President Wolfe’s failure to release some statement denouncing racism on the campus. In this post we want to explore the conditions at Mizzou and in Missouri that contributed to the current situation, adding historical context to the actions taken by the Mizzou football team. The state of Missouri has a complex cultural history. Much of that history is tied to its historic involvement in various controversies, compromises, and skirmishes surrounding the issue of slavery. Dating back to the 19th century, Missou
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The Cultural History of Missouri
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