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Principal Angela Li was head educator at [[Lawndale High]] during the show's five-year run. She never spoke the name "Lawndale High" without affecting a tone of awe and reverence.
Principal Angela Li was head educator at [[Lawndale High]] during the show's five-year run. She never spoke the name "Lawndale High" without affecting a tone of awe and reverence.


Li is an iron-fisted tyrant who had very little respect for her students amd only looked out for her self-interest. Her personality ia often described as narcissistic and Machiavellian. In "[[Fire!]]", [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Tom Sloane|Tom]] sarcastically joked about ''The Prince'' and it's potential influence on Ms. Li.
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The character was often portrayed as a self-righteous, iron-fisted tyrant who had very little respect for her students and was constantly using school funds to purchase elaborate security equipment - 80% of the operating budget by [[The Daria Database|her own admission]]. Indeed, Angela Li has been seen as many as being a parody of school officials who, in the late 1990s, were obsessed with fear of school shootings and compensated with over-the-top security measures (this despite the show's airing before the Columbine High School shootings). Bomb-sniffer dogs, urine tests, and fingerprinting are established facts of life at Lawndale High. In 2001 she created the Track-Tastic system "which comprehensively cross-references confidential student information, local law-enforcement files, and multiple consumer-spending databases, all while continuously monitoring e-Bay for stun-gun auctions". [http://web.archive.org/web/20010809094531/www.mtv.com/mtv/tubescan/animation/daria/lhs/greeting.html]

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As far as her activities as principal, Li constantly used school funds to purchase elaborate security equipment - 80% of the operating budget by [[The Daria Database|her own admission]]. Indeed, Angela Li has been seen as many as being a parody of school officials who, in the late 1990s, were obsessed with fear of school shootings and compensated with over-the-top security measures (this despite the show's airing before the Columbine High School shootings). Bomb-sniffer dogs, urine tests, and fingerprinting are established facts of life at Lawndale High. In 2001 she created the Track-Tastic system "which comprehensively cross-references confidential student information, local law-enforcement files, and multiple consumer-spending databases, all while continuously monitoring e-Bay for stun-gun auctions". [http://web.archive.org/web/20010809094531/www.mtv.com/mtv/tubescan/animation/daria/lhs/greeting.html]


Despite her obsession with school security when it comes to crime and disorder, Ms Li is completely willing to ignore lack of safety over maintenance issues ("[[Fair Enough]]"); and she's annoyed when [[Helen Morgendorffer]] reveals [[Ken Edwards|a substitute teacher]] was sexually harrassing students, because that put her in "a fix" by having to find a replacement. She is also unconcerned with any damage done to the school's ability to educate by her actions or penny-pinching. The [[Lawndale Lions]] football team, however, is sacrosanct: in "[[Fizz Ed]]", she's only bothered by the budget squeeze when it affected the team.
Despite her obsession with school security when it comes to crime and disorder, Ms Li is completely willing to ignore lack of safety over maintenance issues ("[[Fair Enough]]"); and she's annoyed when [[Helen Morgendorffer]] reveals [[Ken Edwards|a substitute teacher]] was sexually harrassing students, because that put her in "a fix" by having to find a replacement. She is also unconcerned with any damage done to the school's ability to educate by her actions or penny-pinching. The [[Lawndale Lions]] football team, however, is sacrosanct: in "[[Fizz Ed]]", she's only bothered by the budget squeeze when it affected the team.
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