Mizzou Chancellor ‘Outraged’ After Black Students Report Racist Inciden

Two black students at the University of Missouri at Columbia say they were verbally assaulted outside a fraternity house late Tuesday night when students yelled racial slurs and other obscenities at them, according to a statement from the university’s Legion of Black Collegians.

The reported incident has echoes of the events that preceded the turmoil on the campus last year, when protests and a boycott by the football team led to the system president and the flagship chancellor stepping down. For instance, the then-president of the student body reported being accosted and called a racist epithet,as did members of the Legion of Black Collegians.

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