Members of the state Legislative Black Caucus will be on campus today to meet with students, faculty, staff and administrators.

The lawmakers have taken an interest in exploring racism at Penn State since February, when a group of black student leaders presented them with a report critical of the university's racial climate.

On their itinerary for tomorrow, the delegation and the university have scheduled two open meetings.

The first meeting is for minority students and is scheduled from 11 a.m. to noon in Heritage Hall of the HUB-Robeson Center.

Students in the Penn State Black Caucus are promoting the meeting with fliers addressed to "all students of color" that call the meeting "mandatory if you want your voices heard."

Another meeting is open to minority faculty, staff and graduate students, and will run from 1 to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Heritage Hall.

In addition, legislators will hold a closed meeting with a group of African-American student leaders between 10 and 11 a.m.

A luncheon scheduled for noon will probably include conversation with university administrators, said Tom Poole, Associate Vice Provost for Educational Equity.

A group of black students, including leaders of the Penn State Black Caucus, have grown increasingly critical of the Penn State administration since several black students received anonymous racist death threats in October.

Members of the Legislative Black Caucus expressed an interest in following up on campus racism after Penn State's budget hearings in February.

At the hearings, some black lawmakers challenged university President Graham Spanier to do more to correct racism at the university.

The legislators were responding to a group of students who met with them to talk about recent threats and other racist acts at the university.

The students presented a report that lists 250 racial incidents and makes a series of demands for improving Penn State.