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There is new interim leadership at the university of missouri this morning after the surprising resignations of the president and chancellor. student anger over the racial climate on the university of missouri campus started boiling over after incidents with racial slurs and hate symbols. student activists accuse the administration of inaction. a graduate student began a hunger strike demanding tim wolfe step down. in solidarity, the football team vowed not to play until the hunger strike ended....

On campus and the tension on campus really goes back even to earlier this summer. tim wolfes style of leadership was including cutting subsidies for health insurance for students that really -- particularly students of color and then attempted to make an investment by the university of something like $72 million in a sports stadium. so there was a sense not just in that car but even before that that wolfe was not listening to the students and there were various incidents, really some ugly incide...

Tim wolfes style of leadership was including cutting subsidies for health insurance for students that really -- particularly students of color and then attempted to make an investment by the university of something like $72 million in a sports stadium. so there was a sense not just in that car but even before that that wolfe was not listening to the students and there were various incidents, really some ugly incidents, swastika painted on a building in feces. head of the black student union call...

To control the message. the communities are afraid of the media because media can come in sometimes and decide what the story is. so theyre trying to control the message. thanks to the social media and those things, they can control the message and media can still cover it, but i think its important to control the message. >> do you think the football -- >> i tried to retweet it live. >> and nischelle. so they added pressure and that was a -- >> yeah. i think the hunger strike is important becau...

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Activity ending with these students getting what they were asking. >> im going to dig into the football part of this a little bit more now. appreciate your reporting. christine is here, cnns sports analyst also comedian w.cavelle. host of united shades of america. andy rochelle turner and rachel ni nichols here, as well. good evening to all of you. christine, you first. why did it take a football team to force tim wolfes resignation? >> its a great question, don. and i think it forces the questi...

Students and people who have groan up in the area, and tim wolfe did, as well, so he would know this firsthand, as well. race relations have never been wonderful in columbia or at the university of missouri. black students and white students have never been completely harmonious. i was relieved from that because journalism students are admittedly tunnel visioned wsh we have a lot going on and we dont pay attention a lot of times to other things going on campus. but i have had situations where fr...

Happened. >> please, please, use this resignation to heal. not to hate. and lets move forward together for a brighter tomorrow. >> reporter: invoking scripture and taking full responsibility for the, quote unquote, inaction has happened on his campus, university of missouri president tim wolfe buckled under mounting pressure and resigned as head of the largest university in the show-me state, academic home to some 35,000 students. members of concerned student 1950, the activist groups that draws...

Have you both here. >> good morning, martha. martha: when you dig boo this to try to -- into this to try to figure out how did we get here, the evidence listed is there were racial slurs hurled at the student body president and a swastika in feces on one wall, it seems the action of the stepping down of the president thats what underlying here is a bit thin, leslie. >> oh, i dont agree. those are two of many. there are women that have reported sexist events, there are other jewish students that ...

Tom costello, thank you. appreciate it. turning to the university of missouri where the football team is back at practice today just one day after their strike seemingly played a role in the resignation of tim wolfe and the news that the schools chancellor also will take on a lesser role. joining me from the campus a sarah dallof following this for days for us. sarah, hi. >> reporter: hi, kate. the football team back at practice and student advocates camped out on the campus quad behind me say...