CLASS CUTS

The Lawrence City Council this week approved a $10 million financing plan that will facilitate Emerson College's all but certain move to the Merrimack Valley city.

The plan, approved last Tuesday by a 5-4 vote, will enable the city to buy a 100-acre tract of land on the banks of the Merrimack River.

Lawrence plans to use the $10 million from bank loans, state grants and the city budget to buy the land from the approximately 15 individuals and corporations who now own it. Then it plans to sell three-quarters of the land to the college for the cut-rate price of $3 million.

The plan's approval, which came after little debate, means that Emerson will begin building on a currently vacant area by next year, completing its new campus by 1991, college officials said.

The city's selling price is below the land's market value because Lawrence consider the school's relocation as part of its urban renewal program. BRANDEIS

Chaplains End Divestment Hunger Strike

Putting an end to their most concentrated effort at persuading Brandeis University to divest from companies doing business in South Africa, the school's three chaplains last Sunday ended their planned two-week hunger strike, Brandeis official said.

Two of the three chaplains, Reverend Diane Moore and Father Maurice Loiselle, survived from the beginning of the month until Valentine's Day on clear fruit juices, water, mineral water and herbal teas. The other, Rabbi Albert Axelrad, ended his hunger strike one day earlier than the others.

The two-week strike was only the most intensive part of the chaplains' effort at focusing the Brandeis community's awareness on the divestment issue. They are still going without lunch every day, and without all meals on Tuesdays--actions that scores of Brandeis students are emulating, according to The Justice, the student newspaper.

The Brandeis Board of Trustees has stated that the university should prepare to divest completely, but it has formulated no timetable for the university to follow, said Sallie K. Riggs, Brandeis vice president for communications and public relations.

The board will decide in May whether it thinks conditions in South Africa have ameliorated enough for Brandeis to continue to hold stock in companies doing business there, she said, adding that the protesters want complete divestment now. CORNELL

Administrators Will Learn To, Like, Relate

In an effort to increase Cornell administrators' sensitivity to women and minorities, the school will require that all administrators, including President Frank H. T. Rhodes, take a course to help them relate better to their employees.

In addition, Cornell will augment its promotion and recruitment programs for women and minorities, The Daily Sun reported.

The plan represents a "far reaching step" and will "have a positive effect on the relationship between employees and supervisors," said the chairman of the human relations task force, Robert E. Doherty, who is dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

In accordance with the plan, the university will hire a full-time professional to develop human relations training programs for employee supervisors. Hoping to encourage administrators to deal with workers equitably, Cornell will test supervisors' human relations skills yearly.

The plan also encourages administrators to take early action in suspected cases of sexism and racism.

The university will encourage minorities and women to participate in the campus government. STANFORD

University Invests in Latest Venture Of Former Apple Chairman

Stanford University this month invested $658,000 in Next Inc., the latest business venture of former Apple Computer Chairman Steven Jobs, The Stanford Daily reported.

Jobs, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, Carnegie Mellon University, and the employees of Next have invested in the company's effort to develop a microcomputer directed toward the needs of higher education.

Jobs will be working with the two schools "to produce a scholar's work station--a high-performance, low-cost computer," Stanford Vice President for Business and Finance William Massy told The Daily.

Both Stanford and Carnegie Mellon now own one-half of one percent of Next. Jobs will permit no more universities to invest in the company.

Even before Stanford invested in Next, it had for nine months been informing the company of what it believes are higher education's computer needs.

"[Jobs] will use some Stanford research and we will participate in software development," Massy said. COLUMBIA

Outsiders Will Manage Endowment

Columbia University has announced a radical change in its investment policy, planning to have firms and individuals outside the school handle up to 90 percent of its $1.1 billion endowment, The Spectator reported.

Until now, Columbia's investment office has controlled two-thirds of the school's endowment.

Outside money managers "bring a particular expertise and style you're not able to get inside [the investment office]" said Vice President for Investments Roberta Weil, who refused to identify who the new investment managers are.