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...proclaimed a March 4 London Times article. “Harvard students deplore Oxford University,” The Hindu grieved the same morning. Only the somber weightiness of a presidential obituary was suitable for what these newspapers dutifully reported: Harvard-educated Rhodes scholars, Melissa L. Dell ’05 and Swati Mylavarapu ’05, had penned an op-ed in this student newspaper complaining about their Oxford experience...
...issues exposed by this firestorm have less to do with elite institutions themselves than with the students who populate them, and, by extension, with the authority figures that judge their credentials. While it is tempting and reassuring to take Dell and Mylavarapu as exceptions to the rule, they are more likely its most conspicuous exemplars...
...Harvard students do complain about not having a student union. Incessantly. And, in the past three years, we have successfully agitated for a 24-hour library, a student pub, universal swipe card access, later dining hours, college-wide performing artists, and fair trade bananas—gripes reminiscent of Dell and Mylavarapu’s criticisms of Oxford. As Gerson put it, “American universities are extraordinarily consumer driven, with the student being king. The consumer culture of American universities has not been transported to Britain. You’d think that scholars would welcome that...
...which two Harvard grads air frustrations about their time at Oxford University as Rhodes Scholars has stirred up controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In an opinion piece titled “Oxford Blues” that was published in The Crimson on Feb. 25, Melissa L. Dell ’05 and Swati Mylavarapu ’05 cautioned current Harvard juniors to “think twice before attending the Rhodes scholarship information session.” In the article, the pair expressed disenchantment with Oxford’s “outdated academic system...
Like Melissa L. Dell and Swati Mylavarapu (“Oxford Blues,” oped, Feb 25), I’m a Rhodes Scholar currently studying at Oxford. I remember as a Yale junior being so enchanted by the prospect of winning a Rhodes that it was tempting not to consider whether Oxford was right for me. Nevertheless, I put in the hours of thought and research needed to make the best decision I could about how I should spend the next two years. In making my decision to apply, I considered advice from Rhodes alums, Oxford instructors, Yale...