University of Missouri President Tarred and Feathered

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe has resigned. "I have asked everybody to use my resignation to heal," Wolfe said. Wolfe was under pressure to resign because black students thought he was insufficiently sensitive to the fact that racism exists.

Graduate student Jonathan Butler went on a hunger strike on November 2. Butler's feelings were hurt by incidents in which black students were called racial slurs. Also, by the elimination of subsidies for graduate student health insurance on August 14. The subsidies were restored a week later. Butler's letter also addressed the removal by MU of two weeks' worth of contracted clinical hours to Planned Parenthood.

In other words, Jonathan Butler is an aspiring activist, hoping to follow in the footsteps of Deray and Shakedown Al Sharpton. He will say anything to arouse sympathy for his cause, including alleging that Wolfe "doesn't acknowledge our humanity."

The pressure for Wolfe to resign became too great when the football team went on strike. The scrutiny reached a fever pitch when faculty began walking out on classes.

Once the faculty came out on the side of football players and Butler, it became kind of a labor conflict. It could be thought of as Taco Palace employees going on strike because one of their suppliers refused to deliver chicken. The football players are the chicken suppliers.

The university could have broken the back of this strike and sent a message to social justice maggots all over the land. Because if the chicken supplier refuses to bring chicken, Taco Palace can just get another supplier. Or stop supplying chicken altogether. Raw chicken can be perfectly substituted for other raw chicken, just like linebackers can be found anywhere.

They should have warned that the scholarship players participating would have their scholarships revoked.

Liberal arts professors walked out on the job, and that actually created another opportunity to break the strike. One gender studies professor can easily be substituted with another gender studies professor. Or, they can just decide to stop supplying gender studies programs altogether.

This is reminiscent of the protest movement of the 1960's. There were sit-ins at universities back then, and for awhile, the universities tolerated it. Then they started arresting people. Now all those protesters want to have their anti-authority moment. The university relented when they should have pushed back, and the students will use the opportunity to keep pushing the boundaries.