Here’s a postscript to last fall’s troubles at the University of Missouri. It’s also a prelude to this fall’s presidential election.
Of course, that wasn’t the end of it. Missouri’s Republican lieutenant governor said the students wanted “governance by mob rule.” The Republican senate leader threatened the university with a financial “haircut.” A Republican legislator in Jefferson City accused the university of coddling students and submitted a bill to revoke the scholarships of any player who pulled a stunt like that again. Another GOP legislator proposed a required class on free speech.
This past weekend, at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., the AAUP voted to put the University of Missouri on its censure list. A Mizzou professor had asked for the censure vote, and told the Columbia Tribune afterward that the school deserved to be shamed. Censure “means we have been singled out as a university that does not respect its policies and practices.”
ESPN journalists and AAUP professors are either judging Mizzou wisely or they’re meddling outsiders. Tell me what you think about that and I’ll guess whom you like in November.
