The president and chancellor at the university of missouri resigned yesterday amid scandal and heightened racial tensions. Anger has been growingnfor months on campus. After incidents of racism and hate crimesd went unnoticed. One student refused to eat until the president stepped down. Cnns kyung lah reports. In 2010 cotton balls scattered in front of the black Culture Center a reference to slavery and a hate crime. This fall black student leaders called racial slurs on two different occasions. A most recently a swastika, in human excrement left on a dorm wall. Nats Ferguson unrest the students say theyre the post ferguson generation shaped by events in a city just two hours away. Black students make up just seven percent of the 35thousand students these protesters. Mobilized. Camping out on the universitys quad. Faculty threatened to walk off the job. But it was this that became the protests game changer 30 mizzou Football Players tweeted they would boycott Team Activities until the
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