But she did add to the diversity of the faculty by being Asian.

I am an attorney and have now defended three discrimination lawsuits brought by Indians … er … east Indians … er … south asians … I am developing a theory. By virtue of higher education, Indian immigrants to this country are likely to come from upper castes. Many perceive themselvs to now be in a position similar to the lower castes and they assume by virtue of that experience the majority here will treat them as they treated lower castes back home. This makes them hypersensitive bordering on paranoid. This, the anti-discrimination laws and an unfamiliarity with American lexicon makes them a litigator’s delight. I had one Indian plaintiff who claimed that he was racailly harassed when a colleague referred to him as a “brown noser”. This, the plaintiff explained in his deposition, could only be a reference to his brown skin. Even his own lawyer burst out laughing at that.