Word: guinier
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...Lani Guinier '71, former nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department, accepted a tenure appointment at the Law School last Friday...
...American "meritocracy," argues that the SAT-focused admissions system magnifies inequalities in public schools by keeping low scorers from prominent careers; he also says it fails to evaluate a student's character. "Numerical measurement isn't the answer to everything in life," Lemann says. Law professor Lani Guinier co-authored a California Law Review article last year arguing that because standardized tests don't anticipate success in school very well, admissions officers should pay less attention to them...
...third day of the siege, Ewart Guinier, chair of the Afro-American studies department, donated $500 to the protesters...
...also had the great pleasure of having dinner almost nightly for a semester with Professor Ewart Guinier. He was the first chair of Afro-American studies at Harvard. He was an imposing figure, as handsome as he was intelligent. A lawyer and a political activist, he told me stories of the Harlem Renaissance, post-Depression governmental policies and why Harvard could not be trusted. Before the end of his term as chair, he would distribute a booklet he edited entitled "Unfair Harvard," wherein he chronicled the sorry saga of minimal commitment to African-American studies. Harvard's administration should award...
...Lott were held to the same standard as Guinier, he would be driven from office. Yet, Lott will probably escape from this scandal unscathed, perhaps without even being forced to mouth an insincere apology. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was disbanded in the 1970s. But the legacy of white supremacy continues to poison out society and to infect national politics...