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'''Angela Li''' is the Principal of [[Lawndale High]], and one of the main antagonists in the series.
 
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==Background and Personality==
 
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. 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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A running gag in the series was the vast amount of money spent by Ms. Li out of the school budget, often without even telling the other teachers. In one second season episode, Li spent the entire budget the school had set aside for building repairs on a top of the line polygraph machine, explaining that she had won it in a raffle. To deal with her inability to handle the budget for her school, Li would constantly force the students of Lawndale High to participate in forced fund-raising schemes of varying moral quality and enact rules calling for all mandatory attendance of all school events that charged admission prices with suspension as penalty for non-attendance. Li also was not above exploiting the school itself in order to make a quick buck, by allowing companies to recruit students via workshop classes or going into business with vending machine companies that flooded the school with advertisements for soft drinks. In the latter case, a combination of too much soda and too much pressure caused her to run amok in the school with a fire axe, chopping up vending machines. She was dragged to hospital but later released: ''how'' she was released is unknown.
 
Angela LiShe used to be a ballerina when she was younger. ("[[The Lost Girls]]")
 
Li was a big fan of George W. Bush when he was governer of Texas because he had lots of people executed (see [[Daria and Politics]]), and she wrote to him asking for reference photos of one of his electric chair's and to support any bid he made for Presidency.
 
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==Enemies==
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==Trivia==
 
Angela Li used to be a ballerina when she was younger. ("[[The Lost Girls]]")
 
Angela Li was voiced by actor [[Nora Laudani]], whose name was long thought by some to be a pseudonym for ''Saturday Night Live'''s Nora Dunn. The rumor was quashed when Laudani appeared on an episode of America's ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?''.
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