U. Missouri president resigns over handling of racial incidents

The president of the University of Missouri resigned Monday amid escalating protests over racist incidents on campus and how he had responded to students' concerns. Tim Wolfe announced Monday morning at a special meeting called by the Board of Curators, the university system's governing body, that he would step down immediately. "My motivation in making this decision comes from love," Wolfe said. Tensions were high on campus Monday - with a student on a hunger strike, others camped out in solidarity, faculty members cancelling classes and members of the football team threatening to boycott the rest of the season. The Missouri Students Association released a letter on Twitter decrying the administration's silence after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, a black man, by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and said Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, had "enabled a system of racism" on the Columbia campus and had failed the students.