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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...
...rise of the 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...
...other new BSA officers include: McComma Grayson '00, treasurer; Andwele J. Lewis '98, senior representative; Jason B. Phillips '99, publicity chair; Afrah D. Richmond '98, publications chair; Uche A. Blackstock '99, historian; Lani "Sohani" Holland '99, public-relations chair; Nicole K. Sherwood '00, social and political chair; Mark A. Thompson '98, Harvard Foundation representative, and Peter "Alex" A. Kellogg '99, arts and entertainment chair...
Another example of the intensive scrutiny that black politicians face is the tragic character assassination leveled against Lani Guinier, after President Clinton nominated her to be the deputy attorney general for civil rights. Because of controversial articles about alternative voting systems that she wrote in law school, she was dubbed a "quota queen," and her nomination was sabotaged...
...also don't want to imply cronyism. According to a newspaper item I read, Williams, who was close to Bill Clinton when the Clintons lived in Fayetteville many years ago, could now be described more accurately as an acquaintance than a friend--although, as Lani Guinier and Harold Ickes could testify, that seems to be true of everyone the President knows...