Both black students and white students felt voiceless. Please see the Campus Climate Survey for some data about that. Essentially, a significant number of white students felt like they were experiencing "reverse racism" at the same time as black students felt they were experiencing traditional racism. Anecdotal evidence when I was teaching at Mizzou supported this immensely: white students felt like they couldn't speak on issues about race, and black students felt that they weren't included at all in the campus as a whole.
The shuffling of things at the top was merely a PR stunt for both MU and the students protesting. If anything "shocking" happens at any large institution, you can bet there's going to be the ceremonial shuffling of those at the top, because that's what gets done. It wasn't a win--merely an inevitable outcome.
The onus of change is not solely on a protesting group. A business, and particularly a public institution, has a responsibility to address real grievances by members of the public and/or the customers of said business/institution. If that weren't the case, then the political process would be useless and the entire notion of branding and establishing consumer trust a farce.
Contrary to what many believe, Concerned Students 1950 had a list of concrete, realizable demands that they gave the Mizzou administration. A cursory search brought up this, which is incomplete.
Edit: I now realize I was replying both to u/prettymotherfcker and u/UpboatOrNoBoat in the same comment. So sorry about that!
Which folder would you like me to pull from? http://i.imgur.com/UIs55.png EDIT: I just pulled some from all of them, you can pick and choose which ones you want here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oj149lp0eotc4y2/4aNe8Wqur9
>Look, all I said was that it was interesting people were down voting it. People are down voting it.
Look, this is reddit, voting is what goes on.
> I didn't know how many votes there were.
So you were ignorant on the subject and instead of researching the facts you decided to comment with your opinion anyways.
>Now go Google the definition of hypocrite
I think you're the one that needs to do this, but I'll help you out. Now go back and read your post, particularly the part that I quoted in my previous reply. In case you still don't get it, you said people are choosing to be ignorant about the issues while at the same time you were choosing to be ignorant about the number of votes the post had.
>and cry yourself to sleep knowing that mizzou was the only school you could get into.
Hate to burst your bubble, but I didn't go to school there. I moved to Columbia for my job.