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...cover story was written by Associate Editor John Leo, while Staff Writer Claudia Wallis summed up the medical aspects of herpes and possible cures. Both stories were edited by William F. Ewald and checked for factual accuracy by Reporter-Researcher Nancy Pierce Williamson. As Wallis concludes, "Herpes is insidious, but it doesn't have to be a tragedy." The potential tragedy would be a continuing and pervasive public ignorance of what herpes is and how its estimated 20 million sufferers in the U.S. should react...
Managing her academics with her basketball was always difficult for Williamson, but the doctor-to-be always got the work done. During freshman and sophomore years she also played viola for the Harvard/Radcliffe orchestra and violin for the Kuumba Singers. Williamson adds she also was politically active in protests against divestiture in South Africa, and in favor of the Afro-American Studies department, a Third World Center, and women's studies. The political climate at Harvard has calmed down significantly in the last two years, she says, enabling her to focus on her studies and her hoop...
...Williamson has played an active role in the development of women's athletics at Harvard, serving as an executive member of the new Harvard/Radcliffe Foundation for Women's Athletics, helping start an active "friends group" to donate funds which have transformed the j.v. program from "a poor cousin to varsity" to a team with nicer uniforms, better coaching, and a longer schedule...
...Although Williamson "loved how different everyone was" at Harvard, she adds "there is some unspoken but definitely present pressure to conform to the Jonathon P. Higgonbottom III world. I think here and in the world in general, Harvard has been put on some kind of pedestal. I know I did," Williamson says, adding, "Harvard is a grand place, but it is a microcosm of the world and there's a lot of bad stuff...
...Williamson isn't bitter about Harvard; she wants to hang around Cambridge and go the the I.A.B. and play pick up "with the fellas...