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Bicycle Messenger Christopher Stalvey, 19, reached Attorney General Edwin Meese's Justice Department all set to rush in and deliver a package. No way, said guards at the door after taking a look at his T shirt. It read, "Experts Agree! MEESE...
...Stalvey took his story to the American Civil Liberties Union, which had no doubt that Justice had behaved unconstitutionally simply because the messenger was a medium. After some defensive mumbling, Justice retreated. "Obviously we're not going to keep people out because of what they're wearing," said Meese...
LOIS MARK STALVEY...
...Lois Stalvey met other nonreaders, all of them poor and black, when she did a once-a-week hourly stint as a volunteer teacher. Described to their faces by the principal as "the worst class the school's ever had," her eighth-graders had been virtually abandoned by their regular teacher, a white Peace Corps dropout who thought he would find urban education "more meaningful." When he failed to reach the students, he had become bitter and turned against them. "Some of those teachers could make kids feel dumb without saying anything," another Stalvey son, "Spike," explained...
...Stalvey children-Spike, 18, Noah, 15, and Sarah, 14-are still in Philadelphia's public schools (Spike, in fact, the only white student in all but one of his classes), and Lois Stalvey still clings to hope for the inner-city schools. Like a militant black mother with whom she sided years ago, she believes that the schools need "white hostages" to keep from going under completely. But she is far from confident that even that can save the black students. "Why bother moving children's bodies around to achieve integrated education," she asks, "if like the black...