Mizzou group wants Click fired

COLUMBIA, Mo- On Thursday, a group of students called the Young Americans For Liberty, were standing at the Speakers Circle on Mizzou’s campus to hand out a petition they had created.

The petition has the goal of firing Melissa Click. The group wanted it done without having to barge in to the Curators meeting.

Emotions were high at the Speakers Circle and the president of the organization, Thomas Bradbury, was shocked Melissa Click had not been fired already, “It’s appalling that she’s not fired yet. How is she getting paid tax dollars right now to sit and have a P.R. team try to rebuild her image.”

The organization believes the reason why she has not been fired yet is because she is defending a popular topic.

Mizzou student and member of the Young Americans, Victoria Stroup explains, “If she was standing for a conservative group of students or for a cause that wasn’t maybe quite as popular as the CS 1950 protests did get an overwhelmingly amount of support from the student body. If she was standing for something unpopular, I believe she would be fired by now.”

New member, Vincent Pizzo, believes initially, Click was not doing any harm, “I think what they stood for and what they did was fine and it was their right to protest but once you assault another person, especially on public ground, I think that’s where the line needs to be drawn.”

The organization wants to give a voice to students of different perspectives beyond Concerned Student 1950, and the group feels it achieved their goal. Bradbury exclaims, “We’ve got 400 plus signatures so far and we’ve only been out here for a few hours.”

The students stayed on Speakers Circle until 3 p.m. on Thursday looking for signatures. The next step will be to take it to the curators.