Days after leaders' resignations, tensions still at fever pitch on MU campus

 

© AP Photo/Jeff Roberson A member of the black student protest group Concerned Student 1950 gestures on Monday while addressing a crowd following the announcement that University of Missouri…COLUMBIA, Mo. — On the desolate Arts & Sciences mall, 18-year-old freshman Kyra Guerrero sat alone Wednesday, sipping a cup of coffee.
The University of Missouri's normally bustling sidewalks were eerily empty. The black activists' tent city on a nearby quad was gone, removed overnight.
Many students refused to come to campus Wednesday, kept away by death threats made against black students a night earlier. But Guerrero — staging her own kind of protest — refused to stay home.
It angered her "that someone was going to stop me from attending Spanish!" said Guerrero, who is multiracial. "I like Spanish."
Three days after a turbulent semester of racial protests culminated with stunning resignation announcements from the University of Missouri system president and the campus chancellor, raw emotions, fear and racial tension continued to fracture the campus.

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