Title: 2015–2016 University of Missouri protests - Wikipedia
Headings: 2015–2016 University of Missouri protests
2015–2016 University of Missouri protests
Contents
Background
Protests
Loss of health insurance for grad students
Resignations
Rolla arrest
Reactions
Melissa Click incident
KKK hoax
Related protests
Appointment of interim president
Politicians
Turning away reporters at campus meeting
Student enrollment and alumni reaction
Formal report
References

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2015 University of Missouri protests
Student photojournalist Tim Tai in a confrontation with assistant director of Greek life Jenna Basler. Tai's attempt to photograph a tented encampment became a major incident in the protests. Location
Columbia, Missouri
Methods
Occupations
Online activism
Hunger strike
Boycott
Lead figures
Payton Head, student government president
Jonathan Butler, hunger striker
Timothy Wolfe, president of University of Missouri System
R. Bowen Loftin, chancellor of University of Missouri
In 2015, a series of protests at the University of Missouri related to race, workplace benefits, and leadership resulted in the resignations of the president of the University of Missouri System and the chancellor of the flagship Columbia campus. The moves came after a series of events that included a hunger strike by a student and a boycott by the football team. The movement was primarily led by a student group named Concerned Student 1950. The movement and protests were documented in two films, one made by MU student journalists and the other, 2 Fists Up, by Spike Lee. While it is alleged that bad publicity from the protests has led to dropping enrollment and cutbacks, others have cited budget cuts issued from the state legislature. Contents
1 Background
1.1 Protests
1.2 Loss of health insurance for grad students
2 Resignations
3 Rolla arrest
4 Reactions
4.1 Melissa Click incident
4.2 KKK hoax
4.3 Related protests
4.4 Appointment of interim president
4.5 Politicians
4.6 Turning away reporters at campus meeting
4.7 Student enrollment and alumni reaction
4.8 Formal report
5 References
Background
In 2010, two white students dropped cotton balls in front of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center. They were arrested and charged with tampering, which is a felony, and which was prosecuted as a hate crime based on evocation of the historical slur "cotton picker" to describe enslaved or sharecropping blacks. The prosecutor asked for them to serve 120 days in jail, but they were eventually only convicted of littering, which is a misdemeanor, and sentenced to probation and community service, with no jail time.