Word: jain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't always that way. When she first came to Harvard, Smith felt pressure from many Black students to explore her own racial identity. She remembers being "attacked" for not being Black enough, for not being "down enough." She and Anita Jain '94, her best friend from across the hall in Matthews, found the new atmosphere shocking, and started a process of re-evaluating race and themselves...
...Jain jokingly calls this part of their lives "doing the race thing." The "Wacky phase" they went through together dictated much of what they felt able to do with their lives at the time: "what you read [Ellison, not Thoreau], who you would deign to go out with [Blacks, definitely not whites], what your interests were in politics--all with very little emphasis on action...
Coming back to Fairfield after a year ofcollege in the Northeast was a calculatedshock--Jain says they'd spent their first year'honing their elitist fantasies." When Smithreturned to California, she found herself, likemany of her classmates, with a new perspective onhome...
...lazy," she says. "I got excited aboutgoing to parties, boyfriends--it was compensationfor high school." She got "remarkably drunk, likesomething out of television." She even went to afinal club, once. Jain says, "We liked to refer toourselves as those chubby, naive girls thatgiggled...
...Jain '94, a government concentrator, concurs with Lump. She recalls the semester when she took a course in political philosophy taught by Mansfield, and claims, "In that class, TF's gave a lot more B+'s than A-'s when A-'s were deserved...