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Curators Kick Click to the Curb
Hit the bricks, Click:
A University of Missouri assistant professor who has faced an avalanche of criticism after she was caught on video calling for “some muscle” to help her eject a student journalist at a protest site on campus has been suspended from her duties, the University of Missouri System Board of Curators announced Wednesday.
The decision to suspend Melissa Click came two days after the Columbia, Mo. city prosecutor’s office announced it had filed a misdemeanor simple assault charge against the department of communication professor. The charge relates to the Nov. 9 incident on campus that captured national attention.
“MU Professor Melissa Click is suspended pending further investigation,” said Pam Henrickson, chairwoman of the Board of Curators, which governs the four University of Missouri campuses. “The Board of Curators directs the General Counsel, or outside counsel selected by General Counsel, to immediately conduct an investigation and collaborate with the city attorney and promptly report back to the Board so it may determine whether additional discipline is appropriate.”
Mizzou officials had refused to fire, suspend, or even comment on Click for more than two months after she tried to forcibly remove the student journalist from the public space occupied by Concerned Student 1950. Earlier in January, more than 100 state lawmakers called for her firing and David Steelman, a member of the Board of Curators, had expressed frustration with the university’s handling of the issue.
Published in Education
Well, that was timely…
She looks like something out of a Far Side cartoon. (Of course the whole situation sounds like a Far Side cartoon.)
Seawriter
She is suspended with pay. Yep. Straight out of a Far Side cartoon.
Seawriter
Jon,
Melissa Click suspended from her cushy job until the heat dies down. LaVoy Finicum shot dead, another wounded, others charged with federal felonies. Protests are just so cool.
Talk to me when I’m a little less nauseous.
Regards,
Jim
While the suspension probably won’t stick, Click runs the risk of being kicked into the clink, which will give her plenty of time to think. You know what? This alliteration isn’t cool, it stinks.
Best Carrot Top movie since Chairman of the Board.
There’s no kicking to the curb. She’s only been suspended.
This, from the linked-to article seems fairly dispositive:
…interim chancellor Hank Foley apologized to Schierbecker but said the university planned on allowing the tenure process to unfold normally for Click.
“When we deviate from such time-honored traditions at the university, as some have called for, we tend to make mistakes, and it often leads to turmoil,” Foley said.
The apology is idle chit-chat. The important thing here is that precious school tradition is more important than acting on the facts of the matter. Except the tradition of free speech. That can be kicked to the curb at convenience.
Eric Hines
Best Pauly Shore movie since Jury Duty.
You’d like to think so… but a simple assault charge will not result in any jail time. She faces a fine at most, I’m afraid, and even then – she’s suspended with pay, so she’ll be able to afford it.
For old times sake:
http://ricochet.com/white-house-james-s-brady-press-briefing-room-january-23-2017/
Casey
Thank you for that, I think.
Carrot Top doesn’t need college students to provide muscle, that’s what steroids are for.
I’m betting they met with her privately to explain that this was just a gesture, a temporary expedient to appease the primitive, unenlightened rubes of the community and their gesture-prone politicos. When the heat dies down, she’ll be quietly reintroduced and feted by the tenured as a hero as if she’d sent care packages to the Viet Cong. The problem is inherent to the University and Mizzou has admitted nothing.
Is that b-o-r-e-d?
When she returns, Mizzou will begin construction on the Melissa Click Safe Space Enhancement, a 16-foot wall surrounding the campus. The lone entrance will be the Rose Hamid Reception Center, named after the Muslim martyr evicted from a South Carolina Trump rally.
Using thorough interviews, the Center will assure that all students, faculty, staff and visitors hold appropriate views on race, class, gender, the environment and the arts before being allowed to threaten the safe space that must be Mizzou.
Whenever I see this picture, I mentally draw a little Hitler mustache on her and change her raised arm into the sieg heil salute.