"I think the students think the administration isn't doing enough, but we are very concerned about what's happened," said Linda Grace-Kobas, director of Cornell's news service.

Over 40 student organizations, led by Cornell's Asian Pacific Americans for Action, issued a proposal last week urging the University to combat bias within Cornell. Recommendations in the proposal include offering workshops on racial and sexual relations, and expanding the school's ethnic and women's studies course offerings.

Dixon said the curriculum reforms would have positive effects on race relations on a campus where, he said, "Students of color do not feel secure."

Brown said he was pleased by the proposals offered by some student groups. But he said he wished more students were involved in combating hate crimes.

"The activist response was amazing, but the apathetic majority never got involved," he said. "If it had, the student response would have been much more effective."

Cornell's response to the anti-Asian incidents comes two months after two assaults at Harvard that Cambridge Police categorized as hate crimes.

In the first, a group of seven men whom police described as "skinheads" shouted at and then attacked several undergraduates on Mount Auburn Street. In the second, a Muslim undergraduate was assaulted by two men.