Mizzou Director Of Greek Life Janna Basler Placed On Administrative Leave Following Actions In Protest Video
Janna Basler, Director of Greek life at the University of Missouri, has been placed on administrative leave for her actions at the protest.
Her administrative leave was announced earlier today by Mark Lucas, Director of the Department of Student Life. Basler will be relieved of her duties while the department conducts an investigation.
#Mizzou Director of Greek Life Janna Basler, who was in the Tim Tai video, has been placed on administrative leave. pic.twitter.com/GvtO7Usb92
— Mark Kim (@MarkJKim_) November 11, 2015
Basler came under a lot of criticism for her actions in the protest, which were captured on a video of student journalist Tim Tai being pushed out of the tent village for trying to photograph the demonstration. Basler, along with Communications Professor Melissa Click, urged the students to prevent Tai from exercising his First Amendment right.
Basler can be seen getting in Tai’s face at around 2:18. She pushes him, he says, “Ma’am, don’t push me,” to which she cleverly replies, “YOU don’t push ME.”
Give her the boot..
She deserves this 100%. They ought to fire all faculty that participated in this nonsense.
10 years ago at 5:40 pmAll the protestors are idiots but you can’t fire people simply for participating in the protest. By doing that you’re saying they don’t have a right to protest. Basler did far more than just protest and should be fired but not everyone that participated.
10 years ago at 5:47 pmShe has no problem limiting other groups on campus. My friend is in BYX. She ostracized them from Greek Week. What the hell? Are they going to donate too much canned food and blood?
10 years ago at 6:57 pmNo she didn’t BYX was also participating in Homecoming(bigger than Greek week) get your shit right
10 years ago at 11:32 pmHomecoming is during the fall. Greek Week is during the spring. If they have the proven commitment for Homecoming, then why ban them from Greek Week?
10 years ago at 2:40 amit is the faculty’s job to defuse situations and provide a safe environment for the students, such as the poor Asian kid.
10 years ago at 7:00 pmif people want to protest, go off of school property. with how these “protests” have been going, it wouldn’t have surprised me if things had gone violent.
therefore, any faculty who did not try to defuse the situation/move the protest off campus should be terminated.
someone make some statement about my lack of punctuation
Public grounds, bud. They have the right be there. And sure, you can’t fire faculty/staff for participating in a protest. That’d be un-American. However, you certainly can fire them for verbal/physical attacks on a student, for example.
10 years ago at 7:16 pmYour comment is offensive to grammar nazis and I will go Ina hunger strike until it is removed and you are blackballed. I am a white guy so this may be considered offensive somehow
10 years ago at 12:52 amReal cool name bigot. Why are you trying to steal Dino culture? My people have suffered enough because of you privileged frat boys
10 years ago at 7:55 pmIf you fire them, that’d give them ammunition to start crying again; “you’re oppressing us! You’re violating our 1st Amendment rights” (of course they’d fail to see the irony). No, it’s best just to put the children in time out.
10 years ago at 11:17 pmWhere do these people get off thinking that they can dictate where people choose to go?! This is not their land. Janna Basler, and the rest of these morons need to get a life, seriously,,,, It is everyone’s constitutional right to be there, if they so choose. Personally, I would not give the idiots the time of day. They only want attention. Take it away from them ignore them. But this gentleman has every right to be there. So hopefully a snowstorm is in the immediate future……:)
10 years ago at 6:19 amYes, and I think I will starve myself until mandatory drug testing is exercised for ll those on welfare……
10 years ago at 6:20 amKarma’s a bitch, ain’t it.
10 years ago at 5:47 pmI hope they had a group of students march into her forcing her off campus.
10 years ago at 5:51 pmMelissa Click should get the boot too
10 years ago at 5:56 pmI won’t eat until she no longer has a job
10 years ago at 8:43 pmI hope she enjoys her safe space at home
10 years ago at 5:56 pmAnd her new home, a cardboard box on the side of the road.
10 years ago at 6:57 pmMaybe she can move into Starving Tent Village
10 years ago at 9:21 pmNo, her cats are indoors only
10 years ago at 1:14 amWhore Prob sucks the football team off on the reg
10 years ago at 5:57 pmYou sound unintelligent
10 years ago at 6:00 pmGAF. You must’ve been sounding out the words cupcake
10 years ago at 8:04 pmThe fact that this pig is the director of greek life disgusts me. Fire her.
10 years ago at 5:58 pmAt this rate they’ll be no administration at Mizzou by the end of this week
10 years ago at 5:59 pmIf there’s no administration there will be no one to put Greeks on probation…
10 years ago at 6:28 pmIf there is no probation there is going to be the best parties ever…
10 years ago at 7:36 pmEveryone head to Mizzou?
10 years ago at 8:59 pmcan i get a ride, i swear im good for beer money.
10 years ago at 11:31 pmHave the pledges divert the noise complaints by calling in emergencies for being offended. This actually might work out.
10 years ago at 1:03 am…. So, Laying your hands on a student and censoring him from exercising his 1st Amendment right on a public ground at a public institution world renowned for journalism and you get “administrative leave”…
Call me crazy but does this whole situation sound like the Jackie UVA fake rape case… Wild claims made and reported before a real investigation is conducted and then when people are skeptical those that want it to be true do as they did in the video above and place the whistleblower under siege…
“A lie gets half way around the earth before the truth has a moment to put his boots on.”
10 years ago at 5:59 pmDid you just say “his” as if to suggest that the truth can not come from a woman? Are you purposely trying to use words that assert your male privilege?
10 years ago at 6:54 pmcheck your privilege bro
10 years ago at 7:02 pmThanks PC Mizzou for making sure white men shut up while liberals fix America
10 years ago at 7:53 pmForgot to give you a trigger warning, I’m so sorry for offending you, I resign my TFM profile effective immediately.
10 years ago at 6:40 amTerrifying that a SJW was responsible for the school’s interaction with the greek system.
10 years ago at 6:00 pm