The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, February 19, 2007 - 7A ADMISSIONS From page IA underrepresented minority acceptance rate to the affir- mative action ban and said it is too early to understand its effects. Peterson said the affirma- tive action ban is likely having some effect on admissions, but that the University won't be able to get the full picture until early next fall. Still, underrepresented minority applicants went from being admitted at a rate 12 percent above 'the overall average before the ban took effect to 6 percent below the average afterward. Peterson said some of the decline in the admissions rate is because the University put a special effort into encourag- ing students across the board DORMS From page IA House," Zabriskie said. Housing administrators are also working to keep stu- dents in the dorms by appeal- ing to their stomachs. Residential Dining Servic- es introduced two new meal plans last semester - one that allows students 175 meals each semester instead of a weekly allotment and another that allows them to eatunlim- ited meals. Michael Lee, to apply early this year. "We knew there was going to be a lot of uncertainty in our admissions this year so we encouraged people to apply early," she said. "It allowed us to accelerate out admissions cycle." The University admit- ted more applicants early in the cycle this year than it did last year. Through Jan. 7, acceptances to the University were up by about 11 percent. The Office of Undergradu- ate Admissions attributed this jump to a new paperless review system which allowed them to expedite the admis- sion of highly qualified stu- dents. Despite the passage of the affirmative action ban, there has been a 14 percent increase in the number of completed applications the University director of Residential Dining Services, said that more than 400 students have chosen the new meal plans. He said stu- dents responded positively to the addition of a burger and pizza bar in the South Quad cafeteria and a burrito bar in West Quad's dining hall. At the beginning of the current school year, dining services also took away the option of using meal cred- its on the weekends at retail dining facilities. The addi- tion of the burger and pizza has received from underrep- resented minorities. Overall applications to the University increased by only about5 per- cent compared to last year. The University has con- sidered a larger number of underrepresented minority applicants this cycle com- pared to the same time last year. However, despite the fact that underrepresented minorities are a larger per- centage of the applicant pool than last year, the number of underrepresented minor- ity applicants accepted has declined by about 16 per- cent. Peterson said it is impor- tant not to read too much into any particular snapshot of the admissions process because of the nature of rolling admis- sions. "There are always peaks bars increased labor and food costs, making the change nec- essary, Lee said. Students weren't happy with the change. "We took feedback from dining hall surveys, and everything was voted well or very well except for the meal credits," Lee said. RHA passed a resolution in January urging dining ser- vices to bring back weekend meal credits. Lee said that students will once again be able to use the and flows in this process," she said. "Right now they are try- ing to make sure they are not over-admitting the freshman class." But the decline in the minority acceptance rate is in line with what officials in Cal- ifornia saw after voters there banned affirmative action there in 1996. In an October interview, Robert Burdhal, the former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, told the Daily that after the ban went into effect, Berke- ley admitted half as many minority applicants as the year before. Peterson said the Univer- sity will have a more complete picture of the effects of the affirmative action ban on the University's admissions pro- cess by early fall. meal credits on weekends after spring break - but not without a cost. All of the retail dining facilities except for Bursley's Blue Apple will close on Sundays. The hours when students can use the meal credits will also be shortened. Before the change, students could use meal credits between 12 and 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Under the new system, though, stu- dents will only be able to use the credits between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. SWEATSHOPS From page lA led the group inside the build- ing. The group stomped up the stairs in unison to make more noise. They crowded into Coleman's reception area and handed a letter outlining their demands to a secretary. The protesters sat in silence in Coleman's office for more than 15 minutes before leaving the building. No one in Coleman's office at the time would comment on her location. The University has taken action on sweatshop labor before. The President's Advisory Committee on Labor Stan- dards and Human Rights met inlateAprillastyeartodiscuss the adoption of the Designated Suppliers Program. Although the committee recommended that Coleman not endorse the program, it suggested that the University take steps to enforce the exist- ing Code of Conduct for Uni- versity licensees. Accordingto the University's website, licensees may not use forced labor or child labor. The code also includes several other provisions forworker'srights. Members of the Sweatfree Coalition said that the code is not enforced. They said the Designated Suppliers Program is better because it would be monitored by an independent source. The group has set March 15th as its deadline for a response from Coleman, coinciding with the date set by similar groups around the country. "We want to have solidarity with a lot of schools," Kear- ney said. "It's also the Ides of March," he added, referring to the date of Julius Caesar's assassination. If Coleman hasn't repliedby then, the Sweatfree Coalition will determine what steps to take next, Kearney said. "We expect she will reply, unless she wants to even more brashlybrush off students," he said. University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham referred a reporter to a University web- site with the University of Michigan Code of Conduct for Licensees and a timeline of relevant events. "Mary Sue is notoriously difficult to get hold of," Kear- ney said. He and other protesters said they felt slighted by the police presence. They said it was a clear indicator of Coleman's inaccessibility. Alhough SOLE has met with the University's president in the past, Kearney said one of the meetingsbegan as a fortunate accident. "We were on the way to an action and we came in the building on one side and Mary Sue came in on the other," he said. "We saw her in the stair- well and cornered her until she agreed to a meeting." Actions like the silent pro- test take place all over the country, Kearney said. Two students from Purdue University involved in SOLE's protest had participated in a 26-day hunger strike this fall along with several other Pur- due students in what they said was a last-ditch effort to get attention from an administra- tion they said had no concern for student groups. Purdue president Martin Jischke didn't cave, though. 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