The University of Missouri paid a price for its activists’ radicalism

In the maelstrom of the 2018 news cycles, a short report out of the State of Missouri attracted virtually no national attention. For the first time since 2015, the University of Missouri posted an actual increase in freshman enrollment — 4,696 students started their college life at Mizzou, up from 4,134 the year before. To be sure, total enrollment was still down by 5 percent since 2015, but for the first time in three years, the state’s flagship university could make the case that it was primed for a comeback.

Most readers probably think: A comeback from what? After all, given

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