University of Missouri Football Strike

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I saw the video #ConcernedStudent1950 vs the media on YouTube. A news site I was on linked to it. It's probably the same content as the other videos out there (which I'll also check out), but in this one the Greek Life advisor, named Janna Basler, is portrayed prominently. In fact, she identifies herself to the reporter as 'ConcernedStudent1950'. Her behavior towards the reporter is appalling, and she should be reprimanded if not outright fired.

The name of the assistant professor of communication (!) - I still can't believe that's what she is - at the end of the clip is Melissa Click.

Now, let's talk about calling for jobs. If there has ever been an example more warranted for losing your job, it would be the one set by Ms. Click. What outrageous, abhorrent, misguided behavior. It is appalling to me and should be to anyone who cares about First Amendment rights that an associate professor of COMMUNICATION at a publicly funded university has demonstrated this behavior. The university should fire her ass lickety-split, no questions asked. How can you ever have any credibility as a professional communicator when you attack the very systems you deem to call yourself an expert!?? It's absolutely unbelievable. Fortunately, the university has begun to distance itself from her, and an appointment she holds at the School of Journalism at that school is being "investigated immediately", or something like that.

I have no connection to this school whatsoever, but I am just itching to contact someone there to call for her immediate dismissal. If I was a student there, I would be disgusted and embarrassed to have her as a teacher. If I was a parent with a child there, I would be horrified and mad as hell that there's a whack job like that being paid by my tuition and tax dollars to educate my child about communication while displaying such reckless disregard and disrespect to journalists and other communicators. It's not about what and why she was protesting. I get that. But to call for "muscle over here" to remove a reporter from PUBLIC space at a PUBLIC demonstration at a PUBLIC university? Absolutely unforgivable.