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Greater the reward. >> cnn's stephanie elam live on the campus with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning carol. this is not the first time a that we've seen student athletes actually take up a line and protest something. but you can definitely say when the football team joined in with these student activists here, changes happened quickly. this morning students a t the university of missouri are waking up to a massive shake up. one activists say is just the beginning of change. the university system president and the school's chancellor ousted amid racial tensions and weeks of student...

Of gray. hosted a forum on campus. >> you need to get out. you need to get out. >> i actually don't. >> all right. hey who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? i need some muscle over here? >> the outburst led journalism dparmtment to review click's appointment there. and prompted criticism from the white house. >> the reason that you have public protests and public demonstrations is so the public can be aware of your concerns. and it seems to me that you're going to have a hard time getting that message out if you're going to limit the ability of the media to cover you in a public ...

>> we didn't respond or react. >> reporter: wolf striking a different tone than the one captured in this tense exchange with students. >> it's because you don't believe that you have the equal opportunity to successfully -- >> you blame us for systemic oppression, tim wolf. >> reporter: even some long-time faculty say racism has been a problem on campus for years. >> i have been called the "n" word too many times to talk about it on camera and to write them all out. >> reporter: tensions reaching a boiling point around mid-september after the student body president posted on facebook that he w...

But a key turning point came this weekend when black players on mizzou's division one football team decided to boycott until wolfe resign and the black activist group who campaigned for his ouster demanded, among other things, a meeting with missouri's governor. >> aiding and dismantling systems of oppression within higher education, specifically the -- the resignation of tim wolfe is a glimmer of hope for historically marginalized students whose voices have been silenced by patriarchal white male institutions. >> reporter: and those football players who used their clout to impact the campus d...

But a key turning point came this weekend when black players on mizzou's division one football team decided to boycott until wolfe resign and the black activist group who campaigned for his ouster demanded, among other things, a meeting with missouri's governor. >> aiding and dismantling systems of oppression within higher education, specifically the -- the resignation of tim wolfe is a glimmer of hope for historically marginalized students whose voices have been silenced by patriarchal white male institutions. >> reporter: and those football players who used their clout to impact the campus d...