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Missouri players satisfied with resignation after boycott

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The target of their boycott gone, members of the Missouri football team expressed satisfaction Monday and said their refusal to practice or play was an important step toward changing the campus culture.

The president of the University of Missouri system, Tim Wolfe, quit Monday morning and said he took full responsibility for students angered by what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the flagship campus in Columbia. His resignation came less than two days after the Tigers announced on social media that they were concerned with the health of Jonathan Butler, who had not eaten for a week as part of protests against Wolfe, and would not practice or play until Butler's hunger strike was over.