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Elliot F. Gerson ’74 is, at present, an unhappy man. The secretary of the American Rhodes Trust, responsible for directing each year’s selection process and serving as the sole institutional representative of Oxford’s American Rhodes community, he is closer to the scholarship and the scholars than anyone else. Though dismissive of the media uproar—attributing it to the fact that Oxbridge has long been “under the Labor government’s microscope”—his profound disappointment in the op-ed?...
...pair expressed disenchantment with Oxford’s “outdated academic system,” the “less than inspiring” library collections, high costs, and the 5 p.m. closing times of coffee shops. The American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Elliot F. Gerson ’74, said that the op-ed raised legitimate points that were obscured by its presentation. However, he said “much of the rest of their article was frankly silly.” Although Gerson said that the two Rhodes Scholars’ views...
ELLIOT F. GERSON...
...people have as much power to shape American discourse and thought as the president, and no one has had as much power to shape the words of President George W. Bush in the last five years as his speechwriter, Michael J. Gerson. When you hear the president use terms such as “axis of evil” or “soft bigotry of low expectations,” you are hearing Gerson’s handiwork. Gerson—a former presidential speechwriter and top adviser who left the White House mid-June?...
...former Bush administration officials will serve as visiting fellows at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this semester. Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and former New Jersey Governor, will arrive on campus Dec. 4, and Michael J. Gerson, the former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who coined the term “axis of evil,” will be on campus for several days in mid-October. “It’s great to have two such high profile Republicans at a time when there?...