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...microscope”—his profound disappointment in the op-ed’s authors is clear. He commented, “I found it almost breathtaking that they ended their article suggesting that no one should apply for the Rhodes unless they want to go for Oxford. Why else would people apply for the Rhodes...
...Rhodes, Oxford, and Harvard were not designed as stepping-stones to greater glories; they are, respectively, a promissory note and two academic institutions. Beset by flaws as they may be, they, and the scholars affiliated with them, are fundamentally interested in intellectual inquiry and exploration. In an e-mail, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 portrayed the Rhodes scholarship as an invaluable opportunity to postpone professional advancement: “I studied law, which hasn’t been of much use in my subsequent career, but my Oxford experience as a whole has been...
...asked himself whether he wanted “to spend two years in a rainy country doing academic work in a quirky, ancient institution,” the possibility of his having gotten a “raw deal” never arose; the small annoyances associated with Oxford have not impacted his experience. He indicated, in an e-mail, a faith in the ability of high-achieving university students to maintain a balanced perspective: “When the guy who sat on the plane next to you coming here is a [Rhodes] scholar from Zimbabwe, it?...
...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...
...prestige—the evidence they furnished to support it illustrates their grounding in the “consumer culture” that Gerson identified, one which discourages self-reflection and encourages entitlement. Consequently, as Wilner observed, they never acknowledged their own role in shaping their time at Oxford: “If they’re really saying, ‘We applied for this just because it’s prestigious, we made a mistake, and the experience isn’t worth it for us’—say it! Admitting to a mistake...