A student protest at the University of Maryland on Thursday quickly dissolved from a united front against the institution’s handling of football player Jordan McNair’s death into a heated quarrel over whether to boycott football games.
The Student Government Association announced plans earlier in the week for a protest held on the University of Maryland’s campus Thursday afternoon in hopes of harnessing student outrage over the university’s decision Tuesday to reinstate football coach DJ Durkin and athletic director Damon Evans.
University President Wallace Loh changed course Wednesday and announced that Durkin had been fired.