Missouri protesters welcome media, day after shunning it

(AP) — Protesters credited with helping oust the University of Missouri System's president and the head of its flagship campus welcomed reporters to cover their demonstrations Tuesday, a day after a videotaped clash between some protesters and a student photographer drew media condemnation as an affront to the free press.

Reporters have got to go, and some tried to block a freelance student photographer from covering protesters' celebratory reaction to the system president's departure over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.

Kurpius told the Columbia Missourian that during a faculty meeting Tuesday night, Click resigned her "courtesy title," which allows her as part of the university's College of Arts and Science to serve on graduate committees from other academic units.

Mark Lucas, director of the department of student life, which oversees the office of Greek life where Basler works, said officials were "reviewing videos and will be having conversations with individuals present in order to understand what happened" and would then take "any appropriate actions."