Lani Guinier, a Clinton administration civil rights nominee, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 2, at UC Davis about how an institution like the University of California can welcome women and people of color. In her speech, "Rethinking Power: The Work That Race and Gender Do," the civil rights litigator will challenge the "us-vs.-them" thinking. "We have to go one step beyond access to really think transformatively," Guinier writes. "What can an institution do to welcome women or people of color ... not just to welcome them into the institution as it has been functioning, but to rethink its own mission in light of its more diverse population?" President Clinton dropped Guinier's 1993 nomination as chief of the Civil Rights Division after conservative politicians mounted a campaign against her and branded her "The Quota Queen." Guinier's free lecture will begin at noon in the Main Theatre. It is presented by the Women's Resources and Research Center, the Office for Diversity Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity and the Campus Council on Community and Diversity.