Apartheid. USA 1988

February 17, 1988:

Minority students at the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts ended their occupation of a school building after administrators met many of their demands on ad-

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dressing campus racial problems. The accord brings to a close a peaceful five-day occupation of the African-American studies building by as many as 200 minority students. Their protest had been prompted by another racial incident at Amherst, when on February 7, five white students beat up two black students.

Among actions the University agreed to, were: revising the code of student conduct to detail the consequences of committing acts of racial violence or harassment; making the African-American studies building, called the New Africa House, more a cultural center for minority students as well as accelerating its renovation; setting as a goal a 50 percent increase in enrollment of minority students and working to increase the stipends received by minority and other graduate student assistants; studying the creation of new classes in the history and the culture of various minority groups, and studying how the menus of the student cafeterias could be broadened to include ethnic foods.^218.

218. The New York Times, from a report by Allan R Gold