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Hundreds of students, parents, friends, alumni and lookers-on-crowded Tercentenary Theatre yesterday for the annual Class day exercises, which featured an address by guest speaker C. Lani Guinier...
Many societal problems also affected AAAAS. In 1969, all leadership positions in the group were held by males. This was a source of tension between the leadership and many of the women in the organization, including Lani C. Guinier '71, the University of Pennsylvania Law School professor and this year's Class Day speaker. According to Robert L. Hall '69, many Radcliffe students felt alienated by AAAAS...
...class of 1994 has already started graduating from Colleges and universities across the country, and commencement speakers are already rehashing the same old cliches. As a warning to al Gore '69, Lani Guinier '71, and other speakers preparing speeches for Harvard's Class of 1994, I've made a list of commencement messages I do not want to hear...
...there is one criticism of this book it is that its framing as a vindication of Guinier's qualification for the role from which she was debarred detracts from the interest and complexity of her arguments themselves. The unfairness of her treatment is so obvious from the introduction and foreword that her Law Review articles themselves begin to seem like a rather unwieldy piece of evidence, rather than the main substance of the book. This problem is reinforced by the fact that, although the articles have been adapted for re-publication and each is prefaced by a note of explanation...
Despite this,The Tyranny of the Majorityremains both a testimony to Guinier's innovation in the face of the problems of minority representation she describes, and a caution against the complaceny demonstrated by officials such as Justice O'Connor. It therefore seems appropriate to finish with a statement from her own Epilogue...