Imagine Rini Sampath, who immigrated to Arizona from her native India when she was 6.
It wasn’t easy growing up there in the desert.
But she thought she had overcome the worst when she made it to the University of Southern California. So successful, so assimilated in her world, she ran last winter for student body president.
And she won—the first woman to be elected to the post in more than a decade.
She felt totally at home, until last weekend.
As she walked home after a football game where USC had lost to Stanford, she passed by a frat house and lost something more—her racial innocence.
Someone threw a drink at her and yelled out the phrase, “You Indian piece of s—.”
