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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.
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.
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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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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