Judge Questions Agreement in Mississippi's Desegregation Case

By BEN GOSE and SARA HEBEL

The federal judge overseeing Mississippi's 26-year-old college-desegregation case said last week that he had "serious reservations" about a $503-million settlement proposal that was submitted late last month.

In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss., Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. suggested that the plan is too expensive,...