Word: robben
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black students from the various schools joined together to form the Black Action Movement (BAM) in order to present their eleven demands to the university administration. After receiving vague responses from university president Robben Fleming, BAM presented the list of demands to the Regents at their bi-monthly meeting on Thursday, March 19. The Regents' response was very unsatisfactory. They promised an admissions goal "aimed at ten per cent enrollment of black students and substantially increased numbers of other minority and disadvantaged groups" by 1973-74. The problem with this promise was that the Regents allotted only three million dollars...