Blake Neff The University of Missouri (MU) is losing about 1500 students and is facing a huge $32 million budget shortfall four months after it attracted national attention as the site of massive race-based campus protests. “I am writing to you today to confirm that we project a very significant budget shortfall due to an unexpected…
Blake Neff Protesters at the University of Missouri won another victory Thursday, when the school’s Board of Curators announced the candidate they handpicked as the university’s new interim president. Mike Middleton graduated from MU for both undergrad and law school (becoming the law school’s first black graduate), and recently retired after 17 years as deputy chancellor of its…
Blake Neff Following the forced resignation of its president and an attack on student journalists attempting to cover protests, events at the University of Missouri (MU) have escalated even further in absurdity after hysterical students created a bogus rumor that the Ku Klux Klan was roaming campus. Late Tuesday night, Twitter began to explode with…
Blake Neff As tensions at the University of Missouri continue to rage, the college’s police department has sent a new email to students advising them to call the police if they witness any incidents of “hurtful speech.” The email arrived in the inboxes of Missouri students Tuesday morning, and copies of it were quickly posted…