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...Alison F. Egan '01, a representative from the Canaday/Union district, said that campaigning in college is very different than in high school...
CANADAY/UNION (44.8%)1. Hanindar K. Dhesi '012. Joaquin Vega '013. Alison Egan '014. J. Justin Pasquariello '015. Fentrice Driskell '016. Larry Obst...
...There was a division between women who chose to live in the Yard and those that didn't," said Alison N. Mitchell '76, chief congressional correspondent for The New York Times, who will speak at the celebration as part of one of seven scheduled panels.. "It was between women who saw feminism as going out and breaking barriers...and those that felt they should go to women's schools [like Radcliffe] because women's solidarity didn't exist in the Yard...
...Alison, to her surprise, doesn't have much public support from blacks. "I don't have a problem with the way it is," says Tarra Craigen, a classmate. "I respect and appreciate what this girl is doing," says Gemenie Bowdre, a former school-board member who never challenged the elections. "But you have to look at reality." And reality, according to Bowdre, is that roughly 75% of the students are white and that blacks would not stand a chance of being elected without the policy. It was established in 1970, when the local all-black school and all-white school...
...principal. But he was defensive about the status quo, which does, after all, keep two principals on the payroll. Theron Long, for 27 years the white principal, was more direct. "How can it be racist when you're trying to protect the rights of a minority?" he bristled. Maybe Alison can help: It's not racist, she explains. It's just the wrong way to do the right thing, and it assumes biases that do not necessarily exist. In the recent election, she says, three openings for senior-class representative were open to students of all races...