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November 11, 2015
Racial Incidents Take Toll
University
president resigns
under fire
(AP) — The president of the
University of Missouri system
and head of its flagship campus
resigned Monday with the foot-
ball team and others on campus in
open revolt over what they saw as
indifference to racial tensions at
the school.
Tim Wolfe, a former business
executive with no previous experi-
ence in academic leadership, took
“full responsibility for the frustra-
tion” students expressed and said
their complaints were “clear” and
“real.”
For months, black student
groups had complained that Wolfe
was unresponsive to racial slurs
and other slights on the over-
whelmingly white main campus
of the state’s four-college system.
The complaints came to a head
two days ago, when at least 30
black football players announced
they would not play until the pres-
ident left. A graduate student went
on a weeklong hunger strike.
The Columbia campus is about
120 miles west of Ferguson, Mo.,
where Michael Brown was killed
last year in a shooting that helped
Members of the Legion of Black Collegians and the Concerned
Student 1950 supporters gather outside the Reynolds Alumni Cen-
ter after an emotional protest over the weekend on the University
of Missouri campus, in Columbia, Mo.
spawn the national “Black Lives
Matter” movement rebuking po-
lice treatment of minorities.
In response to the race com-
plaints, Wolfe had taken little
public action and made few state-
ments. As students leveled more
grievances this fall, he was in-
creasingly seen as aloof, out of
touch and insensitive to their con-
cerns. He soon became the pro-
Week
in
Review
The
Minimum Wage Protest
testers’ main target.
In a statement issued Sunday,
Wolfe acknowledged that “change
is needed” and said the university
was working to draw up a plan by
April to promote diversity and tol-
erance. But by the end of that day,
a campus sit-in had grown in size,
graduate student groups planned
walkouts and politicians began to
weigh in.
think the letters were a hoax be-
cause they were distributed over
such a large area.
Wolves No Longer Endangered
The gray wolf was formally re-
moved from the Oregon endan-
gered species list on Monday by
the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Com-
mission. Removal from the list will
do little to change current wolf
management but opens up the pos-
sibility for a controlled wolf hunt
in the future for the 81 known gray
wolves in Oregon, officials said.
Portland joined cities across the
country Tuesday in protests for a
$15 minimum wage. “Without a
$15 minimum wage, people ar-
en’t going to be able to live in the
city anymore,” said Justin Norton
Kertzen of “15 Now PDX.” Fast
food workers were among those
Clustered Bar Robberies
participating in the rallies, part of
Police were investigating two
a national declared day of action.
early-morning robberies Tuesday
Gang Killers Sentenced
of bars just five-minutes apart in
Two Portland gang members have northeast and southeast Portland.
pleaded guilty to manslaughter and A man walked into the Coasters
sentenced in the death of Precious Bar and Grill on Powell around
Jackson, 24. Authorities said Corey 1:36 a.m. and demanded mon-
Demmar Hill, 23, enlisted the help ey while brandishing a gun. A
of Antonio Lorezno Sanders, 22, to half-hour later, a similar suspect
kill Jackson, his ex-girlfriend, be- brought a gun into Rounders Bar
cause he was enraged that Jackson on Halsey. No one was injured in
had a new Lesbian love interest. either robbery.
Sanders, 22 was ordered to spend
Five Pedestrians Struck
12 years in prison and Sanders was
Portland police reported that five
sentenced to 18 years.
people were struck late Tuesday
Klan Letters Investigated
morning by a vehicle on Hayden
Several Gresham residents report- Island in north Portland. Every-
ed finding flyers enticing them to one survived, with two people
join the racist Ku Klux Klan over taken to the hospital suffering non
the weekend. The invitations in- life-threatening injuries. The acci-
cluded small bags of root beer-fla- dent at the Mannheim Auto Auction
vored jellybeans and a listed web- parking lot appears to have occurred
site for the hate group. Gresham when a driver quickly accelerated
Police spokesman John Rasmus- and lost control of the car, striking
sen said the department didn’t the victims during an auction.