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University of Missouri administrators announced Wednesday that they had put a staff member on leave as they investigate her actions during protests on campus following the ouster of the statewide university system's president earlier this week.

The suspension of Janna Basler, director of the Columbia campus's Greek Life, came as a Missouri professor, Dale Brigham, announced he had offered his resignation after facing backlash for calling on his students to show up for class in the midst of concerns about racially-motivated threats on campus this week.

Basler was among students, faculty and staff who were trying to keep reporters away from protesters with the group Concerned Student 1950.

The group had established a campsite on the the quad. Video of Basler shows her berating and having physical contact with student-journalist Tim Tai, who was on assignment for ESPN and trying to take photographs of the scene.

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