The president and chancellor at the university of missouri resigned yesterday amid scandal and heightened racial tensions. Anger has been growingnfor months on campus. After incidents of racism and hate crimesd went unnoticed. One student refused to eat until the president stepped down. Cnns kyung lah reports. In 2010 cotton balls scattered in front of the black Culture Center a reference to slavery and a hate crime. This fall black student leaders called racial slurs on two different occasions. A most recently a swastika, in human excrement left on a dorm wall. Nats Ferguson unrest the students say theyre the post ferguson generation shaped by events in a city just two hours away. Black students make up just seven percent of the 35thousand students these protesters. Mobilized. Camping out on the universitys quad. Faculty threatened to walk off the job. But it was this that became the protests game changer 30 mizzou Football Players tweeted they would boycott Team Activities until the
Enough to alleged acts of racism on campus. The schools Football Team threatened to boycott saturdays game, students staged sitins and a graduate student was one the eighth day of a Hunger Strike demanding wofles resignation. nat this is a movement not a moment. Minority students say theyve been met repeatedly with racially charged epithets on campus last month a swastika, smeared in human feces was left on a dorm wall. sot Stephanie Shonekan chair, dept. Of black studies, university of missouri 1 02 1 14 a a t of people have been shocked and surprised that this is still going on and i dont think it is for us or anybody to question what these students say they are going through. sot tim wolfe resigning university of missouri system president 1 15 1 24 we need , please, please, use this resignation to heal, not to hate. And lets move Forward Together and for a brighter tomorrow. A divided campus now searching for a way to heal. Jay gray, nbc news, columbia, missouri. A norfolk, nebraska
Will employ more than 11 hundred people when it opens in two years. Ktivs robert lowe was at the meeting and will have more for us tonight on news 4 at ten. A Housing Project in northeast nebraska is being built faster than expected. Hartington Security Bank Branch President Brandon Baller plans are progressing rapidly to build more available housing in the area. Baller says that not only does this project address the need for more housing, but it also helps a lot of local businesses. When you look at all of the businesses and local contractors that are impacted when a house is built they say that those dollars get circulated seven times on average in the community. So we are very fortunate in hartington to have a number of local contractors that we can use. Hartington has found a bigger need in housing than they have expected. Instead of two and a half houses, 4 homes a year are being completed, putting phase two on the table earlier than anticipated. This expansion brings interest to
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