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While in Cambridge, Rodriguez has spent much of her time helping Soviet emigres adjust to life in America. She has been a volunteer at the Jewish Family Center since her sophomore year, and has worked with a Soviet couple for the last three years...
...door Rodriguez has made a habit of knocking on is that of Admissions and Financial Aids Officer David Illingworth. "Because she is a Slavic concentrator, there hasn't been a lot of financial aid," Illingworth says...
Sometimes Rodriguez has garnered financial support from fellowships and research grants. Other times she has managed to scrape money together from outside sources--a strategy she first utilized when her football-crazy high school refused to allocate any money to fund her trip to a national speech competition...
...scope of her travels has expanded since high school days, and international trips have become almost habitual. Rodriguez has studied in Moscow, West Berlin and Poland. And the Sherman Fellowship she won her sophomore year will take her to Leningrad after graduation. Her long list of honors includes the Radcliffe Murray Fellowship and the Lowe Foundation Fellowship, as well as two awards from outside organizations--one from the American Council of Teachers of Russians, and one from the Council on International Educational Exchange...
...Spanish and English are my natural languages," Rodriguez says. "I studied Russian for the last four years, including an intensive summer in Moscow the spring of my junior year...