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Our 108th year#102 2 sections 16 pages
Abby 7A
Classifieds 5B
Comics 7A
Lottery 2A
Opinion 5A
Sports 1B
Sudoku 6B
World 8A
INDEX
WEATHER
Today: snow
Temp: 36°
Tonight: breezy
Temp: 21°
Page 2A
CLARIFICATION
Local 773 of the
Laborers Interna-
tional Union of North
America represents
324 city workers.
A story on page 1A
Tuesday about city
employee unions’
requests for changes
in salaries and ben-
efits misstated that
number.
OUT OF THE DARK
BUR OAKS GRAFFITI INCIDENT
In the second week of January, the state
champion bur oak tree near McBaine was
vandalized. The vandals took to social media
to post the crime. Page 6A
SIGNING DAY
Missouri’s football recruiting class was in
jeopardy after a bad season, a retiring coach
and the team’s boycott in November. Some,
though, stuck with the Tigers. Page 1B
By SUMMER BALLENTINEThe Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY — A leading bond-rating company on Monday announced it’s downgrading the outlook of the University of Missouri System’s credit rating, noting the departures of two top administrators amid student pro-tests over racial issues last year on the Columbia campus.
Standard & Poor said in a report that the outlook of the four-campus system’s AA+ credit rating dipped from stable to negative, primarily because of con-cerns with the system’s ratio of available resources to debt. The outlook could be
By REBECCA SMITH and RACHEL [email protected]
In a letter sent to MU Interim Chancellor Hank Foley on Tuesday, the American Association of Univer-sity Professors’ associate secretary said assistant professor Melissa Click should be reinstated to her normal fac-ulty duties.
Hans-Joerg Tiede, AAUP’s associate secretary, said MU denied academic due process when Click was suspended Jan. 27.
The AAUP is an organization made up of U.S. professors and academics.
UM SYSTEM
Standard & Poor cites campus unrest in credit downgrade
Professors’ group calls for Click’s reinstatement
Jang Yu-seung, an MU transfer student from South
Korea, was walking down Ninth Street near Middlebush
Hall last fall when a white student walked by and yelled a
profane and hateful comment at her.
Then he spat on her foot.
It wasn’t the only act of racism Jang said she has encoun-
tered. At Plaza 900, a campus dining hall, she once tried to
order a sandwich. People behind her mocked her accent when she tried
to pronounce “mozzarella.” She hasn’t eaten at the deli since.
“I was really embarrassed,” Jang said. Ever since, she has become
sensitive about her accent, fearing people around her will laugh at her
English.
Jang said she wanted to report the incidents to MU officials, but she
didn’t know how.
“How could I bring that issue, where? How?”
Before October, students, faculty and staff had different
channels to report racial discrimination. Students might
have complained to the Office of Student Conduct or the
MU Equity Office, while faculty and staff could report
discrimination to the Human Resources Services Center,
the Equity Office or the Office of the Provost.
Ellen Eardley, assistant vice provost for Civil Rights and Title IX,
oversees the newly created office, which is responsible for investigating
reports of all forms of discrimination on campus. The office also devel-
ops policies and practices to reduce or eliminate discrimination.
Having “a single, centralized office dealing with discrimination would
alleviate any confusion about where to report discrimination,” Eardley said.
Please see DISCRIMINATION, page 4A
BY SEAN NA
PHOTOS BY ERJU N PENG
Missourian
MU’S ASIAN STUDENTS RELUCTANT TO REPORT DISCRIMINATION
VERA TAN
YIZHE SUN
RUSSELL HSU
KEN HAN
Please see RATING, page 6A Please see CLICK, page 6A
