MIZZOU IN DISARRAY: Ex-Missouri President Lashes Out in Confidential Email. “In an email to a group called the Missouri 100, Wolfe accused the former chancellor of Missouri’s Columbia campus, R. Bowen Loftin, of stirring up controversy to try to protect his own job, and criticized the football team’s decision to go on strike.”

Related: Controversial U of Missouri Professor Suspended. “The University of Missouri Board of Curators announced late Wednesday that it was suspending Melissa Click, who teaches communications at the university’s flagship campus in Columbia. Click was recently charged with misdemeanor assault in relation to her videotaped blocking of a student journalist during last fall’s campus protests. She has apologized for the action, but many Republican legislators have called for her dismissal. Faculty members, while not defending her actions during the protests, have said she should not be fired.”