CAMPUS BRIEFS: Friday, April 25, 1997

Black community to stage protest rally Organizers are seeking a comprehensive initiative to recruit and retain black faculty members and to increase the number of black students at the University. They demand "the issuing of a public apology by the University administration for its continuing discrimination and mistreatment of black students and administrators." And the demonstrators will request that University President Judith Rodin and Provost Stanley Chodorow attend a town meeting next month to address the demands. "The black community has been left with no other choice," the announcement states. "We must show the University that we are committed to seeing this through, and that we are completely united," they added. Marchers will gather at the W.E.B. DuBois College House at 11:30 a.m. and head to College Green by noon. The rally should last two hours. -- Lindsay Faber