sentences:  Frederick L. Hovde, Purdue's president at the time, was sympathetic to the cause.He appointed Bond to a steering committee, which organized the first national effort to increase minority participation in engineering.Responding to students' need for a place where minority students could network and study, Purdue provided black students with a house, which Bond and his friends would "move in and decorate it and call it a Black Cultural Center," Bond later said.