Out in the wilds of Columbia, Mo, this morning, the harried president of the University of Missouri, one Tim Wolfe, chose to resign as zookeeper.
His option was being burned to a crisp at the stake.
It is the way of college in these race-centric times that when the yahoos go to the grownups and kvetch about real or imagined racism, they always will get their way.
In the runup to Mr. Wolfe’s ouster, thirty manly football players said they would not play next weekend’s game unless the president committed administrative hari kari. Taking their cue from classmates who actually receive passing grades, the players said that Mr. Wolfe had not responded strongly enough to apparent racist incidents.
They apparently wanted Mr. Wolfe to hang or at least shoot at the alleged perpetrators.
Racist protestors said that since only 7 percent of Missouri’s 35,000 students were black, the setting was ripe for prejudice. By or against them?
Every report out of Columbia has been vague about the alleged racism.
Since there is much less racism among American grownups than there was in the last century, maybe teenage boys and girls are more sensitive than adults.
Can you imagine a brutish football player being cerebrally fragile? Only if he can spell “cerebrally” within 15 tries.
