Nation IN BRIEF : ALABAMA : Colleges Are Ordered to Halt All Race Bias

A federal judge ordered Alabama to erase all vestiges of racial discrimination in its public colleges. U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy ruled in Birmingham, Ala., that the state’s formula for funding higher education must be altered to help its two mostly black public universities, Alabama A&M; and Alabama State. He also directed several mainly white schools to do more to attract black students, faculty members and administrators. The ruling came in the second trial of a desegregation lawsuit filed in 1981. Gov. Guy Hunt said it would be premature to make a decision on an appeal of the ruling.