Hundreds of University of Missouri students along with members of some Pro-Palestinian groups marched across the Mizzou campus Monday and showed their oppositio
president. right? reporter: just happened 50 minutes ago. the deputy chancellor, mike middle continue has been appointed interim president. middleton, a form civil rights attorney and law professor, has been with the university for 30 years. more vandalism being reported on the mizzou campus. the sign to the school s black culture center was covered with spray paint just a few hours ago. campus police are now reviewing security footage for clues, and 20 other colleges are now planning to support the university of missouri with solidarity demonstrations. those are both public and private universities. the demonstrations begin today and continue throughout the weekend. another call at another university for another president to step down. reporter: right. students at ithaca college in upstate good luck say the president has had a lack luster to response to what they call systemic racism on campus,
resigned, over claims he didn t sufficiently address racism on campus, and after members of the football team said they wouldn t play until the president was out. we reported here yesterday, in one posting, police say park wrote online, and i quote, some of you are all right. don t go to campus tomorrow. the associated press reports the investigators asked the students where that was based on a threat posted before the shooting at umpqua community college. the student responded, uh-huh. then they asked, why? and he said, i don t know. i just deep interest. i mentioned the arrest happened days after missouri s president stepped down. students protested, saying he didn t address incidents of racism on campus. now we re seeing similar demonstrations in schools across the country. trace gallagher has more. mizzou just named on interim
including alleged racist remark biz public safety officers and a racially tinged invitation to a fraternity party. some 600 students and faculty held a solidarity walkday manning the president resign. after they matched the students held a die insure, where they lay on the ground and stay silent for 20 minutes. then they spoke. listen. not willing to listen to the students of color. willing to make small steps in order to make it seem like he is addressing the issue, but is doing the bare minimum to get students of color to stop talking. reporter: and at yale university, the college is now investigating racially insensitive signs on campus. the front of the sign said, all lives matter, and no more dead black children, but the backs of the signs had writings about black crime, violence, and rape. yale does not believe students posted the signs. the university is also investigating a halloween fraternity party where students of color allegedly were not
away for security reasons. carol? nick valencia reporting live from louisiana this morning. more threats of student demonstrations of faculty walkout on the mizzou campus. the university president resigned yesterday but protesters say their fight is far from over. stephanie elam joins me from the campus with more. good morning. reporter: good morning, carol. this is, perhaps, something you could count in the win column for the student activists but when you talk to students here, they say the work that needs to be done here is far from over. yes, they were calling for the head of the university system, the president, to step down. not just of this school, of the system. there s four schools within that. that is exactly what tim wolfe did. then we heard the chancellor is also going to transition into a new position come january 1st. but when you talk to students on the campus, they do say there s a feeling that things still need to change. obviously if the idea here is