Michele Roberge resigned this week as theater director at California State University at Long Beach after 14 years in the post, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports. Her resignation followed a disagreement with administrators over whether the university’s performing-arts center should host the racially charged play N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk.
After the university’s president, Jane Close Conoley, told Ms. Roberge that the play must be canceled, the theater director said she felt she could no longer remain in her position.
“I couldn’t imagine myself doing this job anymore,” she said.
