The Lawrence City Council this week approved a $10 million financing plan that will facilitate Emerson College's all but certain move to the Merrimack Valley city.

The plan, approved last Tuesday by a 5-4 vote, will enable the city to buy a 100-acre tract of land on the banks of the Merrimack River.

Lawrence plans to use the $10 million from bank loans, state grants and the city budget to buy the land from the approximately 15 individuals and corporations who now own it. Then it plans to sell three-quarters of the land to the college for the cut-rate price of $3 million.

The plan's approval, which came after little debate, means that Emerson will begin building on a currently vacant area by next year, completing its new campus by 1991, college officials said.

The city's selling price is below the land's market value because Lawrence consider the school's relocation as part of its urban renewal program. BRANDEIS

Chaplains End Divestment Hunger Strike

Putting an end to their most concentrated effort at persuading Brandeis University to divest from companies doing business in South Africa, the school's three chaplains last Sunday ended their planned two-week hunger strike, Brandeis official said.

Two of the three chaplains, Reverend Diane Moore and Father Maurice Loiselle, survived from the beginning of the month until Valentine's Day on clear fruit juices, water, mineral water and herbal teas. The other, Rabbi Albert Axelrad, ended his hunger strike one day earlier than the others.

The two-week strike was only the most intensive part of the chaplains' effort at focusing the Brandeis community's awareness on the divestment issue. They are still going without lunch every day, and without all meals on Tuesdays--actions that scores of Brandeis students are emulating, according to The Justice, the student newspaper.

The Brandeis Board of Trustees has stated that the university should prepare to divest completely, but it has formulated no timetable for the university to follow, said Sallie K. Riggs, Brandeis vice president for communications and public relations.

The board will decide in May whether it thinks conditions in South Africa have ameliorated enough for Brandeis to continue to hold stock in companies doing business there, she said, adding that the protesters want complete divestment now. CORNELL

Administrators Will Learn To, Like, Relate

In an effort to increase Cornell administrators' sensitivity to women and minorities, the school will require that all administrators, including President Frank H. T. Rhodes, take a course to help them relate better to their employees.

In addition, Cornell will augment its promotion and recruitment programs for women and minorities, The Daily Sun reported.

The plan represents a "far reaching step" and will "have a positive effect on the relationship between employees and supervisors," said the chairman of the human relations task force, Robert E. Doherty, who is dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.