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Scott and Beverly, who grew up in Louisiana, feared they had landed not just deep in the South but deep in the past as well. Their children were mystified. "I just sucked it up at first," says Alison, 17, the Williamses' red-haired middle child...
...forbearance lasted only so long. Alison has her father's courage and her mother's conviction. Elected in May as next fall's student-body president, a one-person office open to all races, she decided to tell school officials and, in effect, the town, to wake up and enter the second half of the 20th century. All of which assured only one thing: she can forget next year's Miss Popularity title. Teachers have shunned her. Friends have dumped her. "I was surprised by how fast it happened," she says. A recall petition was started at school...
...some support beyond her family. Kelly Jacobs, head of a parents' group, helped persuade the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education to investigate. Jacobs says Alison should be held up as a model for challenging accepted practice and sparking debate, no matter how sticky the issue or unpopular the cause. Instead she is bad news in a town that got along fine without her. School officials argue that race relations are good, that all students are fairly represented and that other schools use similar systems. As one teacher put it in a TV interview, "It's just...
When she met classmate Alison Lurie '47, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985, Adams says Lurie seemed "like a sophisticated New York woman. I was very frightened...
...organization periodically sponsors dinners with graduate students and Faculty members, including Korsgaard and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, the group's advisers...