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...bluntness tripped her up when she applied for a generous scholarship to Wartburg College in nearby Waverly, Iowa, a liberal-arts four-year institution founded by a Lutheran pastor, where German Lutherans like Rowley's parents sent their working-class kids. One of several finalists for the Regents Scholarship, a four-year ride, she answered honestly when the panel asked her about her major. "I haven't thought much about it. I'm keeping it open," she said. The students who eventually won declared they planned to be missionaries, doctors and lawyers. "I tracked them," she says. "And within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleen Rowley: The Special Agent | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

Though it has been two weeks since the announcement of the Canadian Rhodes Scholarship winners, Dhand said he is “still in a little bit of a shock...

Author: By Yingzhen Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Rhodes Scholar To Study Education | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

Excited by this prospect, the suit says, Minuto quit the team at Tulane—forfeiting an athletic scholarship the Green Wave had supposedly promised him in the process...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Lost in the Transfer—A Christmas Carol | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...overcome her self-proclaimed “judgmental streak” when confronting such views. Her panelist for the final rounds in the Rhodes scholarship competition asked Kuo if her friendships with the guests at the homeless shelter were “real.” Kuo calls the Rhodes process “corrupting. It became a total vanity thing, rather than, ‘I want to study in England...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Seniors, Part II | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

Meng declined the Marshall to accept a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leverett Senior Awarded Marshall Scholarship | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

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