University officials said they will not take any direct action in response to last week's report from the Human Relations Commission which criticized and commended the racial climate on campus.

Homer Floyd, the commission's executive director, reported to the House Education Committee that 10 racial incidents -- more than any other school in the state -- at the University Park campus have been reported to his office in the past three years.

He reported that University of Pennsylvania, with an enrollment of 22,572, had seven racial incidents in the same period. University Park's enrollment is currently 37,623.

However, Terrell Jones, special assistant to the provost, said new action on the part of Penn State is not necessary in response to this report.

"In many ways, we're way ahead of that report," said Jones, who is in charge of minority affairs. "I don't think it's going to be a catalyst for us to do anything new."

Jones said Floyd commended Penn State for doing more than any other school in the state for eradicating racial tensions.

While Penn State's number of incidents is higher than any other college in the state, Floyd said this may be due to its demographics.

"Penn State has a large campus. They have a large number of black students as compared with other campuses (providing) more opportunity for problems to occur," Floyd said in an interview last Friday.

Jones said Penn State draws a wide range of people, which increases the potential for tension.

"The more heterogeneous the population, the more potential for conflict. In fact, it's predictable," he said.

Louise Oncley, special assistant to Floyd, also added that many incidents go unreported.

Students here are also more likely to associate off-campus racial incidents with Penn State, she said.

However, Oncley said, students at the University of Pennsylvania might not associate such incidents with the school because it is located in a large city.

Cases of racial tension may be brought to the commission's attention by involved parties or may be independently acted upon by the commission upon learning about such cases.

"We offer advice, we offer support. Sometimes we can just get the parties to sit down at the same table," Oncley said.

When direct violations of the Human Relations Act are involved the commission may assist an investigation, she added.

"The level of the involvement depends upon the situation and the need and what we can do," Oncley said.

Floyd in his report also criticized Penn State for actions taken against students occupying the Telecommunications Building almost two years ago.

In April 1988, 170 students staged a sit-in at the building protesting what they termed unfair treatment of minority students by the administration. The protest ended in the arrest of 88 students when University President Bryce Jordan sent in the state troopers.

"My comment before the committee was that I thought that could have been avoided by simply meeting with the students," Floyd said in his interview.

He said calling in state police and arresting students "laid groundwork for further tension, further debate, consternation."

Black Caucus President Walter Mosley, who participated in the sit- in, said police were unnecessarily rough when clearing the area outside the building.

While the sit-in was "clearly a non-violent protest," Jones said police were "called in as a kind of crowd-control apparatus."

"You don't clear a building or the outside of a building gently," he said.

But calling in state police did "a lot of harm," he said.

"In retrospect, we wish we would have done something a little differently, " Jones said, but added that the situation has made administrators more sensitive to student concerns.

"One of the things you have to realize about change is that conflict is often involved," he said. "Student demands were given more attention as a result of the sit-in situation."