Word: michigan
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More than 200 students at the University of Michigan yesterday ended a 24-hour blockade of an administration building. The protest was intended to focus attention on the prejudice that Blacks and other minority students face on the Ann Arbor campus...
Only 58.6 percent of the Black students entering the university in 1979 had graduated by 1985, a figure considerably lower than the 74.5 percent graduation rate for students as a whole, according to the campus newpspaper, The Michigan Daily...
Royster said that racism is not confined to the university, but that "attention has been focused on Michigan because of its excellent reputation as an academic institution...
Royster said that graffiti such as swastikas painted on the buildings, and students cursing at minorities and even hurling objects at them indicates that racism is a part of everyday life at the University of Michigan...
...Michigan State. Harvard lost to the Spartans, 6-5, in the NCAA final last year. This year, Michigan State is the number two seed in the West and will face SLU tonight. It's possible that the Crimson and Spartans will meet in this year's NCAA final...