and help stop joint damage. enbrel, the number one rheumatologist-prescribed biologic. i d ask everybody from students to faculty to staff to my friends, everybody, use my resignation to heal and start talking again, to make the changes necessary, and let s focus on changing what we can change today and in the future, not what we can t change, which is what happened in the past. stunning turn of events at the university of missouri today, where university president tom wolfe has resigned. the chancellor of the columbia campus, r. bowen loftin, announced he will resign at the end of the year. both men stepped aside today under pressure from students, particularly a very powerful group of students, the university of missouri football team, who agreed not to
practices, unless something was done about this. the next morning, it went to the next level where the entire missouri football team was photographed and the head coach gary pinkel supported the action and in essence, stood against the university system president tim wolfe. and that accelerated the resignation of tim wolfe today. i was asking the congressman about the culture there, and the school in particular, i m asking this because i was at a game down south this weekend. what jumped out at me, i looked around the crowd, i barely saw any black faces. but on the roster, you know, half the team, more than half the team was black. i wonder if there s a part of this story here where there s that same imbalance, and the players on this team almost felt alienated from the rest of the school? well, i think that s a possibility. missouri and columbia is not unlike many other college
reporter: it really was a turning point when the players announced they would boycott all team activities, including practices and games. missing saturday s game against byu would have cost the university at least $1 million. so it was the football team who really pushed the story into the national spotlight. but the controversy and frustration had been building for weeks after the president failed to respond adequately, some say, to the instances you just detailed. this prompted walkouts, it prompted sit-ins and in the case of one graduate student, that hunger strike, which lasted seven days. the surprise news this morning that tim wolfe would be stepping down, was very emotional for students and faculty who were outside on the campus, demonstrati demonstrating, someek brai broko song, wiping tears away. they want to seize upon the momentum and make real and lasting change at the
thank you for joining us. you know the program and the school really well. maybe take us behind the scenes. university of missouri football team, it s a big time team, they play in the s.e.c., some big dollar bowl games. you have the players saying we re not going to play any more games until the school president goes. they have one this weekend against byu, would have cost them a million bucks if they had to cancel that game. when gary pinkel stood behind the players, what happened behind the scene then? how did word get to the president that he had to go? it s been an amazing really 48 hours. because it really doesn t start to transpire until saturday night. it was a big day in college football, but at the end of the night the lasting image was of the black missouri football players saying they were going to protest and sit out games and
you don t have to be a king to be treated like one. and it s time now for the ws. starting with a who. it is the russian track and field team. the world anti-doping agency says the team should be banned from competition due to russian complicity in widespread doping. according to their report russia s version of the cia went as far as infiltrating anti-doping labs during the sochi olympics to cover up positive tests. the report also calls for five russian runners, including one gold medalist to receive lifetime bans. now to the where. it is myanmar, which held its first free election since 1990 over the weekend.