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MU professor apologizes for bullying student journalist (Melissa Click sobbing behind office door)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | November 10, 2015 | Stephen Deere, Alex Stuckey

Posted on 11/10/2015 4:28:37 PM PST by maggief

Melissa Click shut herself in her university office on Tuesday afternoon and could be heard sobbing through the door.

A day earlier, the communications professor at the University of Missouri had helped lead a multitude of activists form a circle hundreds of yards long to block reporters from a tent encampment on Mizzou's Carnahan Quadrangle, following the resignation of University of Missouri President Timothy M. Wolfe.

A video that went viral Monday evening showed Click calling out for "muscle" to help remove a student journalist from the area.

Click emerged from her office around 5 p.m. Tuesday and released a statement apologizing for her actions. She said she had contacted the journalists involved to also apologize, and regretted that she had shifted attention from the "students' campaign for justice."

"From this experience I have learned about humanity and humility," Click said.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: scum
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1 posted on 11/10/2015 4:28:37 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

B, as in B

S, as in S


2 posted on 11/10/2015 4:29:51 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic needs your financial support.)
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To: maggief

Progressives are bullies and tyrants with absolutely no tolerance for others.

Progressives are extremely dangerous.


3 posted on 11/10/2015 4:30:38 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: maggief

So, where can we order either a giant water bomb or 10,000 cream pies to hurl at the degenerates that seem to have taken over that sad excuse for a post secondary institution?


4 posted on 11/10/2015 4:30:39 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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To: maggief

“That wasn’t the me I know.”


5 posted on 11/10/2015 4:30:40 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: maggief

hasn’t this good for nothing “asst professor” created a hostile learning environment??


6 posted on 11/10/2015 4:30:57 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: maggief

http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/11/10/mizzou-professor-im-sorry-manhandling-reporters

Statement by Melissa Click, Assistant Professor of the Department of Communication, Regarding Carnahan Quad Protests

COLUMBIA, Mo. – “Yesterday was an historic day at MU—full of emotion and confusion. I have reviewed and reflected upon the video of me that is circulating, and have written this statement to offer both apology and context for my actions. I have reached out to the journalists involved to offer my sincere apologies and to express regret over my actions. I regret the language and strategies I used, and sincerely apologize to the MU campus community, and journalists at large, for my behavior, and also for the way my actions have shifted attention away from the students’ campaign for justice.

From this experience I have learned about humanity and humility. When I apologized to one of the reporters in a phone call this afternoon, he accepted my apology. I believe he is doing a difficult job, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to speak with him. His dignity also speaks well to the Journalism program at MU. Again, I wish to express my sincere apology for my actions on Carnahan Quad yesterday.”


7 posted on 11/10/2015 4:32:02 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Fire the ignorant S.
Now.


8 posted on 11/10/2015 4:32:13 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: maggief
"From this experience I have learned about humanity and humility," Click said.

From this experience we have learned that you are a bully and a thug, and that your presence on a college campus is utterly fraudulent.

9 posted on 11/10/2015 4:32:25 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: maggief

Crying remorsefully because she shat on journalism?

Or because she got caught?

If she’s a true liberal, it is the latter.


10 posted on 11/10/2015 4:32:42 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: maggief

She doesn’t have tenure? She’s gone.


11 posted on 11/10/2015 4:33:19 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: maggief

Her excuse will be that she was overcome with FEELINGS and therefore cannot be held accountable and the evil photographer should have known that she was very EMOTIONAL and stopped bullying her (taking pictures).


12 posted on 11/10/2015 4:33:35 PM PST by luckodeirish (The Land of the Free-Because of the Brave!!!!!!!)
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To: maggief
She will keep her job...paid for by the citizens of the USA.

She apologized..

What difference does it make!!

I'm sorry.

I'm deeply sorry.

I'm crying..........

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If I did what she did...I'd be fired.

13 posted on 11/10/2015 4:33:36 PM PST by Osage Orange (The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.)
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To: maggief

Dear Melissa: please thank your parents for giving you such an easily searchable name.


14 posted on 11/10/2015 4:33:37 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: maggief

The reason she is crying is she is out of a job with no usable skills. Reality is a harsh Mistress.


15 posted on 11/10/2015 4:33:46 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: maggief

I am sorry that I got caught being myself!


16 posted on 11/10/2015 4:34:38 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: maggief

Another name for the list.


17 posted on 11/10/2015 4:34:43 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: laplata

I prefer to call them regressives.


18 posted on 11/10/2015 4:35:00 PM PST by BBell
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To: ealgeone

From the video I saw, it looked like she touched him in a moment of anger. Is that not assault and battery? She should be in jail, not sobbing in her office coming up with a phony apology.


19 posted on 11/10/2015 4:35:10 PM PST by Boojum
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To: Osage Orange

If they don’t fire her, fine.

That will just serve as yet another illustration of the total corruption that is todays university.


20 posted on 11/10/2015 4:35:42 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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