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These so-called racial incidents are things that most people would blow off, maybe you'd write about it on twitter and that would be the end of it. >> there was a swastika on campus and they didn't feel enough was done. >> written in excrements. >> first of all -- >> let's lisa go. >> ongoing racial slurs, ongoing feces having swastikas in excrement and people throwing around these epithets is just some thing we can brush off when tim wolfe himself said he was wrong and he should have done something about it. he did not lose his job. >> so what. >> he was forced to respond because they hit him...

The university system president and the school's chancellor ousted amid racial tensions and weeks of student-led protests. >> please use this resignation to heal. not to hate. >> this is just the beginning in aiding and dismantling systems of oppression within higher education, specifically the um system. >> reporter: effective immediately, the resignation of university president tim wolf who some say failed to adequately address several hate crimes on mizzou's campus. >> we didn't respond or react. >> reporter: wolf striking a different tone than the one captured in this tense exchange with s...

Out at the university of missouri, the football schedule is back on. they're going to be playing football this saturday, after dozens of players protested, university leadership saying they failed to address racism, on the university of missouri campus. but the protests, although peaceful, were still controversial. >> gabriel knows all that. she's been following this impactful story. >> after weeks of anti-racism protests the entire missouri football team is scheduled to be back at practice today. about 30 players 24re9enned to boycott the season unless the university president stepped down. a...

Chief washington correspondent james rosen has the story of what unfolded on campus. james? >> reporter: good evening. black student activists on the columbia campus of the university of missouri where the black african-american population is just 8% has toppled two of the university's most powerful figures, today the chancellor lofton is stepping down at year end to lead university programs following a dramatic announcement from university president tim wolf who in buckling to mounting president acknowledged, quote, inaction to pons to racial incidents. >> you should really love everybody her...

Body president posted on facebook that he was called the "n" word, something that happened, he wrote, multiple times on campus. then in mid-october, a swastika painted in feces inside one of the residence halls. by november, second graduate student jonathan butler launching a hunger strike, pledging not to eat until tim wolfe resigned. >> a lot of people know how corrupt the system is. they thought i was going to die from day one. from the moment i made my announcement, people thought i was a dead man walking. >> reporter: the football team and their coach also vowing to stay off the field unt...