A partial list of the committee members, with Click’s name removed. (Screenshot)
The University of Missouri professor who ignited a First Amendment firestorm when she encouraged student protesters to obstruct a photojournalist is gone from a page that listed her as a member of a committee advising the university’s student-run newspaper.
Until today, the University of Missouri’s website showed Click as the chair of the school’s Student Publications Committee, which recommends to administrators policy changes regarding the student-run newspaper and yearbook. The site now describes her spot as simply “vacant.”
Click’s disappearance from the committee follows a call for her removal from the Maneater, the university’s student-run newspaper. In a short statement Tuesday, Maneater Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Loutfi said Click’s presence on the board posed a threat to the paper’s “objectivity and credibility as a student publication.”
Since Click egged on students to interfere with the work of student photojournalist Tim Tai earlier this week, her comments have gone viral and drawn pushback from First Amendment advocates. On Tuesday, Click resigned her appointment with the school’s journalism department and apologized for her actions.
The University of Missouri’s department of communications did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
