What a great message to send to the student body. This report is an update to this story.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the details.

UMich meets demands of black students who threatened ‘physical action’

After making a list of seven demands and threatening “physical action” if they were not met within one week, a black student organization at the University of Michigan will now have its most expensive wish — a $300,000 renovation of the campus multicultural center — granted by administrators.

And in response, a campus libertarian group has put forward its own demands — making the point that UM is hypocritical in its professed support for diversity.

Members of the Black Student Union met with campus administrators on Friday, and a deal was reached to renovate the Trotter Multicultural Center, according to The Michigan Daily.

BSU had previously complained that the center did not occupy a more central place on campus. It is instead a few blocks northwest of Central Campus.

The renovations will cost about $300,000. Details are still being worked out.

There has been no word yet on whether administrators will also capitulate to the other demands, which include requests for increased funding and modifications to UM’s curriculum that would force students to take more classes about race and ethnicity.

BSU also made several demands — including tuition scholarships for racial minorities and increased minority enrollment — that might be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last spring on Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) — a case related to UM’s affirmative action policies — and is expected to uphold the citizen-enacted ban on race-based admissions in public universities throughout the state of Michigan.


 
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