Every once in a while—in a long, long while—justice is served. Even at the university. Late last week the University of Missouri Board of Curators announced that, after a month of investigation, it was terminating the employment of Professor Melissa Click.
Click, you may recall, was the Mizzou communications professor who was caught on video asking for some “muscle” to come and remove a student journalist covering campus protests. It was a particularly repugnant act of bullying.
And it turns out it wasn’t the first. During the course of the investigation the school discovered another video of Click, taken in October 2015, when she confronted police at the school’s homecoming parade and screamed all sorts of ugly things at officers who, judging by the body-camera video, were conducting themselves professionally.
Watching the two videos prompted three questions: (1) How many incidents of Click’s ranting abuse weren’t captured on video? (2) How could someone with such a lack of control and surplus of unpleasantness be an effective teacher? And (3) how could any student of Click who didn’t agree with her politics think he’d get fair treatment in her class?
The university did the right thing. Enjoy the blue moon while it lasts.
