In the latest controversy to divide the community, Mizzou’s Board of Curators voted Wednesday to suspend Melissa Click, the assistant professor caught on camera pushing a student journalist and calling for “some muscle” to remove him from a protest camp.
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The suspension also came on the same day the school’s ousted president, Tim Wolfe, issued a scathing letter slamming his successor as president, the Board of Curators, other university leaders and even the school’s football team, which backed the protests.
“The football team’s actions were the equivalent of throwing gasoline on a small fire,” Wolfe wrote, adding that the players’ boycott had hurt enrollment and cost the school more than $25 million. “The end result could be a financial catastrophe for our university.”
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But Click’s supporters expressed outrage, claiming that the suspension was unprecedented and that the professor was a scapegoat.
“Since when do UM … Curators make personnel decisions?” tweeted local lawyer and small-business owner Carolyn Sullivan. “Tired of [double] standards [for] women & witch [hunt] against Click.”
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