I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.
There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.
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