Missouri President Tim Wolfe Resigns Over Racist Incidents

University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe, whose handling of a string of racist incidents on campus led to campus protests, including the football team, announced his resignation Monday, according to multiple reports.

Most notably, 32 black Missouri football players announced Sunday, with full support from their coaching staff, that they wouldn’t take part in football activities until Wolfe resigned.

“I take full responsibility for this frustration,” Wolfe said Monday at a public meeting. ”And I take full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred.”

Students say racial tension began to simmer in September when Payton Head, the president of the Missouri Students Association, posted a Facebook message about a group repeatedly yelling the N-word at him on campus.

The campus newspaper, the Missourian, reported that last month a man used a racial slur after interrupting a rehearsal by the Legion of Black Collegians for an event.

Feeling that the school administration was silent on the issue of racism, students blocked Wolfe’s car during the homecoming parade.

Most recently, someone used feces to draw a swastika on a wall in a residence hall.

Wolfe and other administrators were again criticized for inaction, which culminated with grad student Jonathan Butler starting a hunger strike on Monday. Butler said he would not eat until Wolfe resigned, saying Wolfe has failed to respond to racist and homophobic incidents on the campus.

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