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After the thrashing she took on editorial pages last year as a multicultural extremist and a "quota queen," it seems that Lani Guinier '71 is coming back with a vengeance. In addition to her long-held tenured professorship at Penn law school, she's been hot on the lecture circuit, she's published her first book and her ideas are now given serious consideration as potential solutions to current voting rights problems. "Call it Lani Guinier's Revenge," says The New York Times. What's more, she's been invited to speak at Harvard as this year's Class...
...myself," Guinier said. "identified by caricatures, I was Clinton's quota queen...
...staff flippant dismissal of Lani Guinier with the label of "Quota Queen," simplistically evades a real discussion of her views and suitability as Class Day speaker. Their treatment of Guinier is reminiscent of the superficial appraisal the national media as a whole gave her at the time of her nomination...
...Quota queen" Lani Guinier, on the other hand, is famous only for her attempts to dismantle democracy by turning it into a scheme for ensuring outcomes favorable to what she views as the interests of "authentic" minorities...
...council's success in securing a diverseleadership--done without the benefit of any quota,affirmative action or special recruitment--mayhold lessons for other campus organizations thathave struggled with the problem...