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11/11/2015

Your Daily Mizzou Round-Up (Does That Aggress Anyone?) [UPDATE: What Mizzou Hath Wrought]

Filed under: General — JVW @ 2:10 pm



[guest post by JVW]

Since people still appear to be fascinated by what is going on at the University of Missouri, here are some links to interesting developments:

Melissa Click, the professor who tried to prevent student journalists from covering a public gathering of black student activists, resigned her “courtesy appointment” to the journalism department yesterday. She remains an assistant professor of communication, though the university is keeping mum on any additional disciplinary measures she may face as well as how all this affects her tenure prospects. The other staff member seen in the video interfering with the rights of the journalists, Janna Basler of the Student Affairs Office, has apologized for her actions. Her office has said it is investigating the incident.

Over at The Federalist, Sean Davis wonders if the swastika drawn in excrement in the dormitory isn’t a hoax. After being stonewalled by campus police, the online journal has filed a Freedom of Information Act demand with the state of Missouri to see what the police reports have to say.

The graduate student whose hunger strike helped galvanize the football team’s strike turns out to be from a wealthy Omaha family whose railroad executive patriarch made $8.4 million in compensation last year.

A black faculty member and minority students of various races write in to the local paper to insist that racism is common in their experience.

[UPDATE: Student protesters at Ithaca College are now demanding the firing of their campus president, Tom Rochon. It’s open season on higher ed administrators apparently.]

– JVW

86 Responses to “Your Daily Mizzou Round-Up (Does That Aggress Anyone?) [UPDATE: What Mizzou Hath Wrought]”

  1. Does my use of the term “round-up” cause pain to those who identify with the cattle community?

    JVW (34f70e)

  2. Happy Vets. Day to all who served.
    Greatly appreciated.

    mg (31009b)

  3. The racism is significant enough that just the head of the President is insufficient, Comrade. MU should cancel all the remaining football games and use that time to root out racists and counter-revolutionaries throughout the school. It may require the sacrifice of the basketball season as well. Let us hope the Track & Field and Baseball teams can return in a properly purged environment.

    BooBoo (376ea8)

  4. these trashy missou students love love love being victims same as how the righteous thrill of being a victim

    moistens kim davis in unseemly places

    this is just what failmericans have devolved into

    no wonder the whirl hates your stupid morbidly obese cowardly guts

    happyfeet (831175)

  5. trashy *mizzou* students i mean

    happyfeet (831175)

  6. A black faculty member and minority students of various races write in to the local paper to insist that racism is common in their experience.

    Not nearly as common as massive doses of left wing stupidity. I just love watching leftists pillory other leftists. This should be encouraged at all campuses across the Fruited Plain.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  7. Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™: the problem is that, while the left implodes on itself, other completely innocent people will get caught.

    scrubone (c3104f)

  8. This story has Rolling Stones rape scare written all over it.

    I inadvertently made a racist statement about it by referring to the situation at Mizzou as “Bananas”.

    Dejectedhead (81690d)

  9. Scrubone, what makes you say that? Looks to me like a bunch of over privileged leftist/Marxist college idiots pissing on each other. They haven’t gone after anyone but their fellow academics.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  10. Fox should send Jesse Watters down there to interview the campus. What a hoot! Wearing a confederate t-shirt.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  11. I inadvertently made a racist statement about it by referring to the situation at Mizzou as “Bananas”.

    Tell me about it. I have to fight off the urge to use a pun along the lines of “the zoo at Mizoou,” but then I figure the SJWs will accuse me of referring to black students as animals and thus we’ll wander down that path for the rest of the thread.

    JVW (34f70e)

  12. Gorillas In The Mizzou?

    nk (dbc370)

  13. The School of Hard Knocks is being shuttered, due to the lack of students. This is a direct result of Coddle U opening next door.

    John Hitchcock (a8e79a)

  14. In Summary:

    At Mizzou, someone was called a name by people driving by in a truck.

    Then, a single person insulted a group of 11 guys to their faces.

    In response to this, the guy that was insulted from the truck went on a hunger strike.

    Then a mob surrounded the University President’s car….and were offended that he didn’t talk to them.

    Then, the losing football team went on strike.

    **Mind Blown**

    Dejectedhead (81690d)

  15. UPDATE: Student protesters at Ithaca College are now demanding the firing of their campus president, Tom Rochon. It’s open season on higher ed administrators apparently.

    JVW (34f70e)

  16. hunger strikes are gayer than emma sulkowicz

    especially this close to the holidays

    this’ll be my first year to get to do this

    i’m a take my wee small baby cousin pickleheads there

    they’re the most adorable kids ever even with all their revolting white privilege

    but there’s nothing we can do about the color they were born

    unless maybe Jason Aldean has some ideas

    and then after that I’m a try and get Italian Village reservations hopefully vivere

    and then after that we’ll just have to see what the kids look like they’re up to

    I can go and go and go I have this kinda crazed evangelical enthusiasm for showing off this wonderful city

    happyfeet (831175)

  17. it’s the domino effect, we had news from that campus, of the absurd kind,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  18. First Missouri professor resigning due to this insanity and it wasn’t Click. It was a good one that tols these precious snowflakes to toughen up and that he wouldn’t cancel an exam due to their fragile nature.

    I’m sure Leviticus feels their is a tort lawsuit against the professor somewhere in there.

    njrob (1a47f7)

  19. oh for the love of pickles don’t be gratuitously meanspirited towards Mr. Leviticus

    it’s red cup season

    happyfeet (831175)

  20. Someone who is very often gratuitously mean-spirited (every time abortion, homosexual lawsuits, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio is written about) tells someone else not to be gratuitously mean-spirited. Irony meter exploded.

    John Hitchcock (a8e79a)

  21. if you need a new irony meter you should use Mr. P’s amazon link

    happyfeet (831175)

  22. full disclosure: i’m totally over this thing where trailer park kim davis social con trash think they own the republican party

    if they’re not careful we’re just gonna let them have it

    happyfeet (831175)

  23. If I show up in the campus quad with a loaded gun pointed at my own head and threaten to blow my brains out if I don’t have my political objective met, what do you think would happen to me? Would I be treated as a principled hero, or would I be treated as a mental case who needed intervention? Same thing if I used a can of gasoline and a cigarette lighter or if I showed up with a cyanide capsule which I intended to ingest.

    So why are people who vow to starve themselves to death treated as these noble and virtuous souls standing up for their beliefs? Are we so creepy in this country that we prefer to watch someone waste away slowly rather than end it all at once? Or do we deep down inside know that the hunger strikers aren’t serious, but we get to pretend that they are?

    JVW (34f70e)

  24. you know what’s even better than hunger striking Mr. JVW?

    oh yeah

    we’re talkin bout Nabisco Oreo Golden Birthday Cake Flavor Creme Sandwich Cookies!!!

    sorry but yes

    i went there

    happyfeet (831175)

  25. The hunger strike can be effective. It’s use in the Mizzou case is totally bizarre. The University President was in no position to tell the student to piss off considering the optics of such a move and he received no support from other people.

    Given the climate on campuses today, this is a case of a dog biting the hand that feeds it. This activism has been spurned by Administration that its now attacking. That activism is the result of racial studies. Gender studies follow the same line. Those “degrees” will be on the chopping block when budgets get tight in the future, as they should.

    Dejectedhead (81690d)

  26. There*

    Happyfascist, your opinion is worthless because you prefer to ramble incoherently. Carry on with your babbling.

    Leviticus pretends to be something that he is not just as you do. I’ve decided it is preferable to call out both of your fascist predispositions rather than try and reason with either of you. I expect it is the only chance for both of you to learn and realize the error of your ways.

    You ignore facts at your own peril.

    njrob (1a47f7)

  27. i have a new Eric Church cd to listen to tomorrow

    i am very happy

    happyfeet (831175)

  28. it’s in my cloud!

    happyfeet (831175)

  29. “It’s open season on higher ed administrators apparently.”

    Such a pity. I’d weep if I wasn’t so busy chuckling. Did they measure the bed before they made it and were forced to lie in it?

    Robert C. J. Parry (5441e4)

  30. A hunger strike has the added manipulative benefit of ongoing guilt in those watching and not Taking Immediate Action!

    Dana (86e864)

  31. You want to go on a hunger strike? Fine. You have to do your hunger strike in the cafeteria. And every day will be pizza day until you start eating again.

    John Hitchcock (a8e79a)

  32. When my brothers and I were little, my mother would spoonfeed us saying, “Here comes the choo-choo, here comes the choo-choo”. We ate as quickly as we could because we knew she wouldn’t untie us from the railroad tracks until we had finished everything in the bowl.

    (Is joke, there was no train.)

    nk (dbc370)

  33. @24- JVW, the three methods in your first paragraph have in common that they will nearly instantaneously end your life if someone calls your bluff. OTOH, the hunger strike is slow acting, leaving time for staff meetings, focus groups, etc to gin up support for the cause and let the administrators begin to feel, really feel the weakness in their knees.

    You get to have your little strike for a while, get lots of attention, and maybe even see some semblance of your demands come to pass. Unlike with the gasoline, cyanide or hot lead, you suffer no lasting harm.

    I found it interesting that the hunger-striker first consulted medical personnel for evaluation of his ability to deal with the strike… a strike that originally was to protest reduced medical coverage/care on campus. Then that loud mouth in the pickup truck upped the ante.

    You just can’t make this s**t up.

    Gramps (bc022b)

  34. A hunger strike only works in a society that has forfeited any right to exist and which should disappear as quickly and quietly as possible off the face of poor, long-suffering Mother Earth.

    nk (dbc370)

  35. Did they measure the bed before they made it and were forced to lie in it?

    The parable of the old lady and the snake, for sure.

    You want to go on a hunger strike? Fine. You have to do your hunger strike in the cafeteria. And every day will be pizza day until you start eating again.

    I was in school during Gulf War I. The leftist collective announced that they would go on a hunger strike when the allies commenced Operation Just Cause and landed ground troops in Kuwait, and would fast* until the end of the war. They set up shop in the major thoroughfare of our campus to ostentatiously show us their resolve through suffering. Some campus wags started having pizzas delivered to the hunger strikers, which today would probably cause campus police to shoot to kill anyone carrying a cardboard box in the vicinity and the entire administration to resign. In my day it was just considered a mean (but really really funny) move. Anyway, the protesters must have have an implicit knowledge of the awesomeness of U.S. military fire power, because as we all recall the ground operation was over in something like 72 hours. The lefty students quickly announced that they would be extending their fasting for an additional 72 hours, in remembrance of all the Iraqi lives “senselessly lost” in this war.

    (* yeah, I think it was a “fast” instead of a “hunger strike,” meaning that the participants took one full meal each day; it’s the wussy way of morally preening while at the same time shedding a few pounds in time for spring break in Cancun!)

    JVW (34f70e)

  36. Oh wait, Operation Just Cause was the Panama deal. It was Operation Kuwaiti Freedom that these lefties were protesting.

    JVW (34f70e)

  37. Operation Desert Shield, I believe it was called at that time,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  38. Odysseus wept…..

    Good thing these snowflakes never saw Kappa Alpha in its Confederate glory.

    kishnevi (31ba4e)

  39. My parents spent ages 12 through 16 under Nazi occupation. More than half a million Greek civilians died from starvation during that time. My parents were eating acorns and lupins to survive. And that was the situation and worse in all the places which fell to the lederhosen. I’ve got something those monkeys at Mizzou Cow College can eat.

    nk (dbc370)

  40. omg nobody tells me anything

    happyfeet (831175)

  41. You are too young to have watched Monty Python episodes on PBS. Dennis More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkhx0eqK5w

    nk (dbc370)

  42. If school admins dared to speak of it, we might all hear about how the fed-guv is quietly telling them that either the protesters “win”, or their fed funding hits big snags.

    bobby b (717988)

  43. they do seem like the precursors to the Outer Planets Association in the Expanse series,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  44. You are too young to have watched Monty Python episodes on PBS.

    I know you’re not talking to me, because I did. As the rest of the family gathered around the color TV set, I would go down to my parents’ room and eat dinner in front of a tiny black and white TV and watch Monty Python religiously. I don’t think I understood a lot of it, but they had cartoons with topless women sometimes and they were very silly.

    Patterico (86c8ed)

  45. yeah i was never a monty python guy

    i hate comedy to be honest

    it’s weird to me how we go through everyday life and it’s so hysterical

    and then people are like hey pikachu look over here – comedy!

    happyfeet (831175)

  46. I don’t think I understood a lot of it, but they had cartoons with topless women sometimes and they were very silly.

    One of the reasons I never censored the daughter’s books or TV is because I know how much of it just goes over kids’ heads. They don’t have the perspective to understand the references. Some of the hardboiled thrillers from my childhood which now disgust me were just exciting shoot-em-ups when I was in 7th grade.

    nk (dbc370)

  47. “I’ve decided it is preferable to call out both of your fascist predispositions rather than try and reason with either of you.”

    – njrob

    More power to you. This is (still) America – say what you want. And quit b*tching when other people say what they want, while you’re at it.

    Leviticus (73e577)

  48. one of my co-workers, her dog went blind on monday

    happyfeet (831175)

  49. here’s an awesome movie about the werewolves for you to see

    happyfeet (831175)

  50. (it’s actually more about trains really)

    happyfeet (831175)

  51. I grew up in England and if you weren’t word perfect on your Pythons sketches at school the next day, you were a social pariah. Fourteen year olds could be tough that way.

    Gazzer (cfe0bc)

  52. This is (still) America

    do you have a link?

    happyfeet (831175)

  53. nk @ 47

    I must have hung with a tougher crowd. In 7th grade I knew all those references…

    It can work in reverse. Jane Austen often referred to a male character “making love” to a female character. The phrase meant chaste courtship to her.

    kishnevi (9cb6b5)

  54. Operation Desert Shield, I believe it was called at that time,

    Dammit, you’re right. I’m getting confused in my old age. Desert Storm/Desert Shield in 1991, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. I’m having trouble keeping them straight in my own mind.

    JVW (738b08)

  55. It can work in reverse. Jane Austen often referred to a male character “making love” to a female character. The phrase meant chaste courtship to her.

    And it continued to be known as courtship in the 20th Century. Consider the lyric to Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” written in 1932 and a hit for singers like Sinatra well into the middle part of the last century:

    And this torment won’t be through/’Til you let me spend my whole life making love to you!

    JVW (738b08)

  56. You were precocious or I was just an innocent farmboy, kishnevi. The Maltese Falcon does not disgust me, but I was in my fifties when I understood that both Cairo and Gutmann were homosexuals and that Wilbur, the “gunsel”, was their gonsel (catamite). Despite this passage:

    He opened his mouth to speak, but the sound of someone coming in at the corridor door stopped him.

    Effie Perine rose and went into the outer office. Spade took off his hat and sat in his chair. The girl returned with a card: Mr. Joel Cairo.

    “This guy is queer,” she said.

    “In with him, then, darling,” said Spade.

    Mr. Joel Cairo was a small-boned dark man of medium height. His hair was black and smooth and very glossy. His features were Levantine. A square-cut ruby, its sides paralleled by four baguette diamonds, gleamed against the deep green of his cravat. His black coat, cut tight to narrow shoulders, flared a little over slightly plump hips. His trousers fit his round legs more snugly than was the current fashion. The uppers of his patent-leather shoes were hidden by fawn spats. He held a black derby hat in a chamois-gloved hand and came toward Spade with short mincing, bobbing steps. The fragrance of chypre came with him.

    nk (dbc370)

  57. There is no verifiable proof that anyone actually was subjected to any racial slurs.

    There is no tangible evidence of any poopstika at all. Not a photo, not a sample of the feces, not a video.

    In an age where everyone carries a cellphone, highly unlikely any of these things took place.

    Suspect the administrators who fell on their swords today probably simply said “Eff it, who needs this craziness?”

    If Missouri’s football team was in the Final Four conversation instead of also rans, fair bet this does not even get to this point.

    And wonder how a middle class family in the midwest who pay roughly $30k to send their son or daughter to Missouri to get an education think of all this complete nonsense. To have a supposed journalism professor act like a shapeup thug in “On The Waterfront” is astonishing and disgusting .

    Bugg (fa64ec)

  58. 56.
    Well, the question was not whether it existed, but rather who was the source of the fecal matter (in more ways than one).
    I don’t remember this particular symbol being directed at blacks. Perhaps the individual doesn’t know how to make a noose.

    kishnevi (9cb6b5)

  59. of course, it’s also irrelevant like a zombie plague, it is spreading to Ithaca, and other places,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  60. A police report of a bias incident 3 or 4 days after is suspect.That nobody can produce a picture, video or a sample for DNA purposes is unheard of. Police departments are always ready to go all out on a basis incident, and they cannot wait to break out the groovy CSI toys like checking the sample for DNA, which might show the pooper’s race and sex. Unless the do have all that and …

    Bugg (fa64ec)

  61. I am quite prepared to believe the racial slurs were made.
    It is the infantile reaction of the students that is to be contemned.

    I have had the equivalent insult (meaning, the k-word)shouted at me more than once by white guys in pickups. Not often, but it happened a bit over a year ago when I was going with a group from my synagogue to perform taschlich. “Did he actually say that?” “Yes.” “What a [vulgar synonym for rectum]!” And then we went to do what we were planning to do.

    kishnevi (31ba4e)

  62. why would this have happened on September 11th, of all days, it doesn’t pass the smell test,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  63. — Why do University of Missouri graduates hang their diplomas from their rear view mirrors?
    — So they can park in handicapped spaces.

    nk (dbc370)

  64. ironic, actually maddening on this day of all days:

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/11/amid-scandal-veterans-affairs-issues-142-in-bonuses/

    narciso (ee1f88)

  65. More power to you. This is (still) America – say what you want. And quit b*tching when other people say what they want, while you’re at it.

    Leviticus (73e577) — 11/11/2015 @ 5:58 pm

    Not according to the fascists running the University of Missouri. They’ve said anyone who doesn’t support their speech will be destroyed. We’ve seen what happens if you don’t kiss their racist ring.

    But you’ll just say they played the political game and won.

    So predictable.

    NJRob (a07d2e)

  66. ‘repressive tolerance’ it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner, of course it is in keeping with the light bringer’s admonition about revenge, and ‘punching back twice as hard’

    narciso (ee1f88)

  67. Ever notice how these crisis protests invariably hit campuses around either midterms or finals, and are swiftly followed by demands to be exempted, usually granted due to the “trauma”?

    Estragon (ada867)

  68. the real story may lie in this appointment,

    http://law.missouri.edu/about/people/henson/

    narciso (ee1f88)

  69. My parents spent ages 12 through 16 under Nazi occupation. More than half a million Greek civilians died from starvation during that time.

    The veneer of civilization and a civilized society can be very thin and very fleeting. That’s one reason why I’m even more sickened by people who don’t appreciate — or, worse of all, spit upon — the surprising fragility of any place throughout the world where true prosperity and true stability exist.

    And, yep, that’s a big reason why I often point to the paradigm of Michigan’s city of Detroit or all the half-crocked nations of central or south America, or the interminable ideological stupidity of folks in countries like France — or any of the various never-ending dystopias on planet Earth — as a reminder of just how bad things can become or where we could all too easily end up.

    Mark (f713e4)

  70. They should close the school and send everyone home and start over with new students next year.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  71. 72. ‘repressive tolerance’ it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner, of course it is in keeping with the light bringer’s admonition about revenge, and ‘punching back twice as hard’

    narciso (ee1f88) — 11/11/2015 @ 8:54 pm

    Afraid you have it backwards, narciso. When the campus Red Guards shut down speech they can’t stand because if doesn’t goose step in perfect conformity with their anti-American, anti-western civilization groupthink they are practicing “liberating tolerance.” “Liberating tolerance,” the elimination of dissent from the the progressive left’s political dogma, is what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner and is in keeping with Prom Queen’s comments about his enemies that need to be punished.

    “Repressive tolerance” is that Leviticus is talking about, although I’m sure he doesn’t realize it, when he says “This is (still) America – say what you want. And quit b*tching when other people say what they want, while you’re at it.”

    This is why President Selfie and his fellow campus Sandanistas want to fundamentally transform America. Because the old, white, evil Constitution empowers the racism that, according to King Putt, is in our DNA by declaring that except for direct threats (and this is a very narrow category of speech) all speech is legal. This tolerance of free speech is “repressive” because the special snowflakes on campus feel “unsafe” when they are subject to speech they don’t approve of and haven’t authorized. And the brownshirts at the DOE agree, which is why they updated the Nuremberg speech laws Department’s interpretation of Title IX requirements about what constitutes the safe learning environment that all universities must provide their students.

    “Repressive tolerance” puts “marginalized communities of color and gender” in the impossible position of being subject to a free exchange of ideas. And we all know that a free exchange of ideas just perpetuates the white male patriarchal heteronormative power structure that is oppressing them. “Liberating tolerance” means demanding that campus authorities recognize that inclusiveness requires excluding not just wrongspeak from the public square, but also wrongthink.

    You need to refresh yourself on your Marcuse, narciso. “Liberating tolerance” is just another name for extorting teary confessions from professors and administrators who don’t bow to the demands of the campus Sandanistis in public Maoist struggle sessions, then firing them and banishing them for not being enthusiastic enough about the revolutionary struggle.

    Steve57 (bcaa38)

  72. DUH!!! Yes, Bugg. Poop is 100% DNA and, unless there was a stopped-up toilet, the poop was that of the person who drew the swastika. If proper police procedure was followed, a swab was taken and tested. Even if you could not trace the sample to a person, you could certainly show racial & ethnic heritage. So, what is the only reason for withholding the results or not taking a sample in the first place?

    Michael Keohane (5ea921)

  73. BooBoo racistly wrote:

    The racism is significant enough that just the head of the President is insufficient, Comrade. MU should cancel all the remaining football games and use that time to root out racists and counter-revolutionaries throughout the school. It may require the sacrifice of the basketball season as well. Let us hope the Track & Field and Baseball teams can return in a properly purged environment.

    Good Lord, BooBoo Bear, what a terrible thing! The football team is two-thirds black, and the basketball team is majority black as well. But baseball teams tend to be predominantly white, so your suggestion is thoroughly raaaaacist, and I denounce you for it!

    Yogi Bear (f6a568)

  74. When, God willing, it’s time to pick the daughter’s college, one of the criteria will be that it has no alumni in the NFL or NBA except as owners.

    nk (dbc370)

  75. Thanks Steve. I forgot to use the shells.

    narciso (ee1f88)

  76. “If I show up in the campus quad with a loaded gun pointed at my own head and threaten to blow my brains out if I don’t have my…” -JVW

    I guess that one of the funniest movies ever made – _Blazing Saddles_, released in 1974 – is not very well known 40 years later. It’s extremely politically incorrect anti-racist theater, which may be why it’s not well known among millennials.

    And I still don’t understand the whole “Swastika” thing; is there even one Jewish player on the football team?

    It doesn’t surprise me that a Communication professor would be in the middle of this with the football team. The Comm degree was invented because it would be awkward to have that many white guys in the Black Studies program. (For those Special Snowflakes who take this as a racist comment… no, it’s a comment on special dumbed-down curricula for “scholarship” athletes.)

    bud (30d398)

  77. it’s a comment on special dumbed-down curricula for “scholarship” athletes

    At Northwestern football games, some Northwestern students would chant at the opposing team, “It’s alright, it’s okay, you will work for us someday”. And that’s how the authorities knew which Northwestern students planned to become drug cartel bosses and brothelkeepers.

    nk (dbc370)

  78. Open season? Me confused. I thought any hunting had to be done by government permit only, with weaponry fully registered after extensive background spying on the owner.

    Ed from SFV (3400a5)

  79. The University of Missouri football coach is resigning at the end of the season, but he has cancer so that may be the reason. It does help explain why he was so accommodating of the players’ boycott.

    DRJ (15874d)

  80. Wow, thanks for pointing that out DRJ. I agree that a player mutiny seems a whole lot less important when you are fighting a potentially fatal disease.

    JVW (738b08)


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