March 5, 1999

U. of Rochester Officials Yield to Protesters

A sit-in by 200 students at the University of Rochester ended last week after administrators signed a deal agreeing to take new steps to increase the number of minority students and faculty members.

The protesters, who occupied a hallway connecting the president's and provost's offices for more than four hours, charged that officials had pledged support for such efforts in the past, but had been slow to make the changes, or had dropped

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