Word: guiniers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Minorities in a democracy need protection against the tyranny of the majority, said former nominee for Assistant Attorney General C. Lani Guinier '71 in an Institute of Politics speech at the Kennedy School last night...
...members of the Students Coalition for Civil Rights displayed a banner during the speech which said "Please Come to Harvard Law School." Guinier has been offered a visiting professorship at Harvard Law School...
...Guinier asks, should geography rather than race determine how we form groups to elect representatives. The answer is simple--we want to encourage geographic communities, not racial balkanization...
While minority interests must be safeguarded within a democracy, Guinier's philosophy of groups "taking turns" in ruling is not the way to run a government. There are other ways to guarantee minority rights without fostering racial division, such as the Bill of Rights and a judiciary to enforce...
Even Clinton had the sense to drop Guinier. The Senior Class Committee should do the same...