Ah, this is poetic justice indeed. In 2015 the University of Missouri chose to cater to the pampered ramblings of some unjustly riled student protesters and in 2016 Mizzou is paying the price for their weak-kneed acquiescence.
The interim chancellor (because remember, the previous chancellor had to quit after he did nothing wrong) for the University of Missouri announced on Wednesday that the school was facing a massive budget shortfall and had already lost some 1500 students in the wake of the #BlackLivesMatter Mizzou protests. Here’s part of what interim chancellor Hank Foley said in his letter to Mizzou’s staff;