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Quote:MU assistant professor of communication Melissa Click's interaction with a Columbia police officer during the university's Homecoming Parade on Oct. 10 warrants a conversation with the University of Missouri System Board of Curators, MU Interim Chancellor Hank Foley said Sunday night in an emailed statement.

"Her conduct and behavior are appalling, and I am not only disappointed, I am angry, that a member of our faculty acted this way," Foley said in a release from the MU News Bureau. "Her actions caught on camera last October, are just another example of a pattern of misconduct by Dr. Click—most notably, her assault on one of our students while seeking ‘muscle’ during a highly volatile situation on Carnahan Quadrangle in November."

Foley referenced body camera footage in which Click steps in between a police officer and MU graduate student and activist Jonathan Butler. In the video, Click tells the police officers to "get your hands off the children" and later curses at an officer who grabbed her shoulder.

So are they going to shitcan her or not?

She has no business teaching anything, much less researching Twilight.

What a Freak.

The fact that she used the term "muscle" should be enough proof she's a freakin loon. Who the hell talks like that?

Tenure is wonderful.

if the unemployment rate in MO doesn't tick up by one whack job professor, then they may as well shovel dirt on the university of mo and start from scratch.

(02-16-2016 07:40 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote:  The fact that she used the term "muscle" should be enough proof she's a freakin loon. Who the hell talks like that?

I figured it was a midwest yankee thing.

(02-16-2016 01:39 AM)Kaplony Wrote:  http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/h...user-share

Quote:MU assistant professor of communication Melissa Click's interaction with a Columbia police officer during the university's Homecoming Parade on Oct. 10 warrants a conversation with the University of Missouri System Board of Curators, MU Interim Chancellor Hank Foley said Sunday night in an emailed statement.

"Her conduct and behavior are appalling, and I am not only disappointed, I am angry, that a member of our faculty acted this way," Foley said in a release from the MU News Bureau. "Her actions caught on camera last October, are just another example of a pattern of misconduct by Dr. Click—most notably, her assault on one of our students while seeking ‘muscle’ during a highly volatile situation on Carnahan Quadrangle in November."

Foley referenced body camera footage in which Click steps in between a police officer and MU graduate student and activist Jonathan Butler. In the video, Click tells the police officers to "get your hands off the children" and later curses at an officer who grabbed her shoulder.

Wonder what Foley means by 'pattern of misconduct'? Doesn't that suggest she's done more than just call for muscle (hahaha) and obstruct the police?

(02-16-2016 08:34 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  Tenure is wonderful.

Less wonderful than you'd think (the tenured get canned, too) but this chick does not have tenure. Mizzou's probably waiting for the year to run out, and then won't renew her. Easier and less expensive to defend not renewing than outright firing.

Unless she's got mental issues, she may be deliberately doubling down so that when she does inevitably get the ax at the end of the school year she can claim it's all political (in her inevitable lawsuit).

(02-16-2016 12:27 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(02-16-2016 08:34 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  Tenure is wonderful.

Less wonderful than you'd think (the tenured get canned, too) but this chick does not have tenure. Mizzou's probably waiting for the year to run out, and then won't renew her. Easier and less expensive to defend not renewing than outright firing.

Unless she's got mental issues, she may be deliberately doubling down so that when she does inevitably get the ax at the end of the school year she can claim it's all political (in her inevitable lawsuit).

She's gone. Well, suspended. And good luck to her trying anything after pleading guilty to assault.