Lani Guinier, nominated by President Clinton for attorney general in the Justice Department's civil rights division, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a vigorous advocate of equal rights for African-Americans and other minorities, appears as part of the USC Spectrum Distinguished Lecture Series. Ms. Guinier is a controversial advocate for political approaches which de-emphasize race. Through the political empowerment of minorities by changing current voting practices from "culmulative voting" to voting based on "minority districts." She is also working to set up a White House conference on civil rights which, while focused on civil right issues, will be much like the international economic summits in format.