TODAY'S TALKING POINTS 11-10-15

TODAY'S TALKING POINTS

University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe resigned. After a student’s hunger strike, a vow by football players to boycott the sport and the threat of a faculty walkout over the way Wolfe handled racial and other tensions on campus, he stepped down. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced his plans to resign as well. Naturally, Twitter celebrated accordingly as the school system scrambled to figure out a plan to offer diversity training.

Hours after Wolfe’s resignation, Yale University’s campus erupted in protest of its own racially charged incidents, like the frat facing allegations of hosting a party with a “white girls only” admission policy.

Interpol plans to coordinate a probe into widespread doping in athletics. The announcement came after the World Anti-Doping Agency released a report that described a state-sponsored doping program in Russia. As a result, the country’s track and field athletes might not be on the fast track to the 2016 Olympics.

Embattled SeaWorld said it will phase out killer whale shows in San Diego. After the 2013 documentary Blackfish was released, a lot of people got mad about the treatment of orcas, and since have made it very clear that they're pro-freeing Willy. In 2017, SeaWorld will launch an “all new orca experience focused on the natural environment [of whales].”

Global temperatures are set to rise to record heights. A new climate report reveals that things are seriously heating up. The global average temperature is on track to reach 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels for the first time. This is huge, since that’s halfway to the limit the government set to avoid “dangerous levels of warming.” If warming can’t be limited by 2100, we might start seeing the kind of storms we’ve never seen before.

A court ruled against President Obama's plan to provide a better path to citizenship for immigrants. The president hoped to use executive action to defer the deportation of up to 5 million immigrants, but the plan faced another setback in federal appeals court Monday. This means one of the president's signature immigration efforts remains on hold for now, but it could all get hashed out in a Supreme Court battle.

Myanmar held a historic election. After the country's first free vote in 25 years, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said her party, the National League for Democracy, won a parliamentary majority. The final results won't be known for days, but an NLD win could mean the end of 50 years of military rule.