I’m really interested in this. Anything more you can tell us would be welcomed. To me, this is a bad precedent to set.
Couple things... I have lived in Columbia, MO for 52 years. I attended school at MU, I’ve worked for MU, I know a lot of people that work for MU now.
Wolfe believed in fiscal responsibility and was despised by the tenured faculty. A number of them have been looking for any excuse to have him removed.
The blacks don’t like him because he wouldn’t kiss their asses in the manner to which they’ve become accustomed.
When the football team threatened to go on strike Wolfe was left with a simple choice - resign or get fired. A cabal of “athletics boosters” had, prior to today, made it clear that if Wolfe didn’t resign, and the Board of Curators didn’t fire him, that good ol Missouri Governor Jeremiah Nixon would be stepping in to make things right.
The university here has always been run by the “ol boys network”, and it always will be run by the “ol boys network”. As an organization, it is one of the most secretive outfits that I’ve ever been around. Public relations is taken very seriously and every effort is made to sweep the dirt under the rug whenever possible. Every now and then they try to put on a show and bring in someone from the outside, to freshen things up so to speak, and it usually ends badly, as is plainly exhibited by events of the past few days.