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University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe speaks on the phone in a room in University Hall on campus late Sunday night in Columbia, Mo. (photo via latimes.com)

University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning, forced out of office by student protests alleging he had not done enough to address racism and other issues on campus.
“The frustration and anger that I see is clear, real, and I don’t doubt it for a second,” said Wolfe, a businessman who took charge of Missouri’s public university system in 2012.
Students have highlighted a series of disturbing racist incidents on campus, including being called racial epithets, and accused Wolfe of not acting decisively to address race issues.
“We stopped listening to each other,” Wolfe told a packed room of reporters at an open meeting of the system’s board of curators, who had called the Monday meeting only a day earlier. “This is not the way change should come about.”
“I take full responsibility for this frustration and I take full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred,” Wolfe said, adding: “Use my resignation to heal and start talking again.”
Missouri’s curators then voted to go to closed session. Wolfe’s resignation came after a series of protest on campus.
The school’s football team had gone on strike, and some professors were staging a walkout from their classes. A tent city had sprouted up on a campus quad. A graduate student had gone on a hunger strike.
Some state legislators also joined in calls for Wolfe’s removal. The university’s student government called for the president to resign Monday.
Wolfe was holed up in university offices past 1 a.m. Monday morning — seen through windows talking on a cellphone and meeting with other officials — having become the latest Missouri public figure caught in a cauldron of radical protest as pressure on campus built for a year, incident after incident.

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Student and Faculty Protests Over Mishandled Racist Incidents Cause University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe to Resign

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