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University of Missouri President Resigns Amid Racial Unrest

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation on Monday, following weeks of protests over racially charged incidents at the school.

Wolfe's exit came two days after black members of Mizzou's football team said they would not play, and a week into a graduate student's vow not to eat until until Wolfe left office. It is the culmination of several weeks of unrest over racist incidents and the administration's response, which many students criticized as lackluster, NBC News reported.

"I'll take full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred," Wolfe said Monday. 

The protests started after the student government president, who is black, said in September that people shouted racial slurs at him, and in October, members of a black student organization said slurs were hurled at them by an apparently drunken white student, according to The Associated Press. A swastika drawn in feces was also found recently in a dormitory bathroom.

The protest heated up during a homecoming parade Oct. 10 when black protesters blocked Wolfe's car, and he did not get out and talk to them.

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