Student! protest over racism at the University of Michigan has led to new resolutions by administrators intended to improve race relations on campus. The Michigan Daily reported.

Among the administration's resolutions in the wake of a student blockade of an administration building are the establishment of a $35,000 annual budget for the Black Student Union and the implementation of a method for collecting data about racial incidents.

Other resolutions include the formation of an anti-racial harassment policy, and the creation of budgetary incentives to attract minority faculty members, The Daily reported.

With the resolutions, the university hopes to attract a number of Blacks proportionate of the 12.9 percent Black population of the state of Michigan.

During the recent protests, students complained that the university reneged on its 1970 promise to attract and maintain a 10 percent minority enrollment.

The Board of Regents also decided to award an honorary degree to Black South African leader Nelson Mandela, an action that anti racist organization had long wanted.

Because Mandela is imprisoned in South Africa and cannot attend commencement exercises, awarding the degree to him caused much debate among the regent, who said their decision to award the degree was unconnected to recent anti-racist protests. The Daily reported.

On the same day that University President Harold Shapiro announced the new resolutions, the Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the University, lauding the administration's attempts to end racism.

Jackson cited declining Black enrollment at universities such as Harvard, Princeton and the University of Chicago as evidence that higher education lack a commitment to abolishing racial discrimination in education.

More than 250 students, including members of the United Coalition Against Racism, Last month staged a 24-hour blockade of an administration building and chained the building's doors so that workers could not enter. After university security official entered the building by underground steam tunnels and locked protests our, the activists decided to storm a meeting of the University Regents. BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Silber Will Take Six-Month Sabbatical

Boston University (BU) President John Silber this week announced a decision to take a six-month sabbatical leave beginning this summer, the university announced.

Silber, whose announcement was a surprise to many observers, has earned a controversial reputation for his maverick stances on a range of social issues. This week abortion rights activist Bill Baird called for Silber's resignation following a televised debate between the two about "safe sex" kits.

Silber is planning to use his sabbatical to study issues such as AIDS, which he says will "inevitably shape the future of this country," The Associated Press reported. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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