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A frat guy shouted a racist slur at USC’s student president, and she decided not to stay quiet

When Rini Sampath decided to run for student body president at the University of Southern California, some students told her she would never win, she said. She was a young woman and a minority, and she was running on a ticket with another young woman, who was also a minority.

Their advice? Choose a white, male student as your running mate.

Sampath, 21, says she is no stranger to discrimination. She was born in Theni, a district in Tamil Nadu state in India, and she moved to America when she was 6. Classmates in Arizona asked whether her mom was from Mars, she said. Others told her she couldn’t play with them.

Why? Because she had brown skin.

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Sampath and her female running mate, Jordan Fowler, won the election and serve as president and vice president, respectively, of USC’s Undergraduate Student Government. Still, Sampath said, she doesn’t believe many USC students see her first as a student leader. Instead, she said, she thinks they see her — and judge her — based on where she is from.

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Her struggle — no doubt the same for many minority students, she said — came into focus Saturday night when Sampath said she was walking back from a friend’s apartment.

Someone leaned out of a fraternity house window, she said, and shouted: “You Indian piece of s—!” Then he hurled a drink at her.

“Once his fraternity brothers realized it was me, they began to apologize,” she wrote online. “This stung even more.

“I couldn’t quite figure out why their after-the-fact apologies deepened the wound. But one of my friends explained it to me the best this morning: ‘Because now you know, the first thing they see you as is subhuman.’ ”

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“And to those who continue to believe we’re just playing the ‘race’ card, I ask you this — what’s there to win here? A sense of respect? A sense of humanity? A sense of love and compassion for others regardless of how they look like?”

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Almost immediately, Sampath said, university officials reached out to her in support. Students sent messages showing they care, she said. And the student responsible for creating what has turned into a nationwide uproar contacted her to apologize, Sampath said.

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Sampath declined to publicly identify the man who verbally attacked her, nor would she name his fraternity. Soni said he does not know who the person is or what his punishment may be. But, the religious-life dean said, the focus should not be on the assailant but rather on the university’s overwhelming response to Sampath’s story.

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