Rhodes

When Kyle Edwards ’12 received an email last spring informing her of fellowship opportunities, she disregarded it.

Though she said only students with a specific grade point average or higher are on the fellowship listserv, she rationalized her decision to ignore the email by telling herself that applying to prestigious awards like the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships takes a lot of effort with only a small chance of return.

Four Princetonians were selected from a pool of 830 candidates to win this year’s Rhodes Scholarship, the Rhodes Trust announced early Sunday morning. Mohit Agrawal ’11, Liz Butterworth ’12, Miriam Rosenbaum ’12 and Astrid Stuth ’12 are among the 32 Americans who will receive full funding to study at Oxford for the next two or three years.

I appreciate the urgency and analysis our USG president brought to the perception of men on campus. I also believe this point is close to irrelevant in light of the main problem — that women on campus feel, for whatever reason, that their energies would be better spent on activities other than leadership positions.

At Princeton, winners of well-respected scholarships like the Rhodes and Marshall are written up in the ‘Prince’ and featured on the homepage. Winners of the class prizes are awarded at opening exercises so that bright-eyed freshman can all think that they will be receiving those awards next year. Yet other than in these extreme situations, sharing and celebrating academic success is generally frowned upon.

Khameer Kidia ’11, a French major from Harare, Zimbabwe, has been named one of Zimbabwe's two Rhodes Scholars, he confirmed Monday morning.

Kidia, who hopes to become a physician and has already been admitted to the humanities and medicine program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, plans to use the scholarship to earn a master's degree in medical anthropology at Oxford.