In a meeting last Friday, at whichrepresentatives from the office and the ACLU werepresent, Gallagher announced that the office plansto investigate the anomaly, determine the causesand make any changes necessary to ensure that itwill not happen again.

"[Administrators in the Office of ResidentialLife] have been very forthcoming" said Brock, thepresident of Brown's ACLU chapter. "It is obviousthat these are not numbers that they wanted."

The statistics originally ran in an article inThe Brown Daily Herald on Nov. 12. Since then, theHerald has been inundated with letters fromstudents both criticizing and defending the ACLU'sstance.

Some have criticized the ACLU for onlyexamining statistics from one year. ACLU memberssaid in a letter to the editor that they did nothave the statistics for previous years at thistime but intend to investigate those as soon asthey receive the data.

Brock said he expected to see similarstatistical anomalies because minority peercounselors told him they had noticed similarimbalances in the past.

Brock said he hoped that the controversy overthe racial imbalance would persuade the Office ofResidential Life to "compile and release data inthe future to see that this doesn't happen again."

Dupuy and Campbell could not be reached forcomment yesterday