Harry Truman, the buck stops here President and a true Missouri mule, (no pushover) would be ashamed at MU. Of course, students have every right to protest something that they believe is wrong with school officials. However, a right to protest is an American privilege that is also granted to students or people like me, who have a right to protest against a campus protest that seems harmful to me.
My right to protest should be protected and respected too. If the University of Missouri administration did the things they were accused of, then MU violated the law and there are ample courts in the "Show me" state to punish the guilty. MU's capitulation is like a parent acceding to a child's crying demand to get an ice cream cone because you just drove past the ice cream store. It is a teaching moment, not a capitulation moment. You can ask for what you want, but no right to expect to always get it just because you ask for it. Capitulation is a slippery slope and it only goes downhill. Ask any parent or leader.
I protested a bit when I was at KU too. It was difficult and I was forced to take courses from professors that I thought were stupid. Maybe I should have protested more. And as it turned out, the courses were just as useless as I thought. There were many students that believed the same way I did, but we ate our lunch anyway and went to class. Athletics was a nice sideline, but not the mainline.
Harry Truman would have made the tough decision and the football season would have been canceled in favor of education.
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