Student protesters attempt to interfere with a student journalist on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus on Monday, Nov. 9.

JEFFERSON CITY • More than 100 Republicans in the Missouri House and Senate want a Mizzou communications professor ousted after she was caught on camera bullying a student journalist in November.

Melissa Click, an assistant communications professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, helped lead a multitude of activists forming a circle encompassing hundreds of yards to block reporters from an encampment on Mizzou’s Carnahan Quadrangle, following the November resignation of University of Missouri System President Timothy M. Wolfe.

A video that went viral showed Click calling out for “muscle” to help remove a student journalist from the area. The video sparked a national wave of criticism against Click and other activists.

A day later, Click resigned her courtesy appointment with the journalism school.