USD professor fired after post calls Charlie Kirk a ‘hate spreading nazi’

Gov. Rhoden ‘glad’ Board of Regents terminated Vermillion art professor

A University of South Dakota art professor is out of a job after making insensitive remarks online following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week, a killing that sent shock through the nation.

The South Dakota Board of Regents on Friday terminated the employment of Phillip Michael Hook, a longtime faculty member at the Vermillion-based university’s College of Fine Arts after the 62 year old academic suggested Kirk’s family would benefit from his death. In the since-deleted Facebook post, Hook referred to Kirk as a Nazi.