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U.S. NEWS Monday 19 noveMber 2018

Rhodes scholar class features plenty of

women, immigrants

By PHILIP MARCELO and And Eren Orbey, a 23-year-
DEEPTI HAJELA old senior at Yale Univer-
Associated Press sity in Connecticut, whose
BOSTON (AP) — The latest parents emigrated from
crop of U.S. Rhodes schol- Turkey, hopes studying at
ars has more women than Oxford will bring greater
any other single class, and “context and clarity” to his
almost half of this year’s writing. He is a regular con-
recipients of the presti- tributor to The New Yorker
gious scholarship to Oxford magazine and is working
University in England are on a book about his father,
either immigrants or first- who was slain in Ankara
generation Americans, the when he was just 3, and the
Rhodes Trust announced killer.
Sunday. “I’m interested in studying
Among the 32 winners is the ethics of revenge and
Harvard University senior forgiveness,” Orbey said
Jin Park, the first recipient Sunday by email. “I think
covered by the Deferred that our culture and media
Action for Childhood Arriv- This September 2018 photo provided by Louis-Henri Merino coverage often conde-
als, or DACA, the Obama- shows Alaleh Azhir in Los Angeles. scend to immigrants and
era program that shields Associated Press survivors of trauma. In my
young immigrants from de- University in Baltimore, emi- Southern California, Vidal writing, I hope to recast
portation. grated from Iran when she Arroyo, 21, reflected on his tragedy and strife as occa-
Park, 22, of the New York was 14 — and is also one of unlikely path to becom- sions for growth and hero-
City borough of Queens, 21 female scholars named ing his school’s first Rhodes ism.”
arrived from South Korea Sunday. The New York City Scholar. The U.S. Rhodes scholars
with his parents when he resident hopes eventually “As a Latino, a first-gener- join a separate, interna-
was 7, studied molecu- to become a doctor and ation college student, and tional group of scholars
lar and cellular biology at will study women’s and re- a train commuter to col- representing more than 60
Harvard, and founded a productive health at Ox- lege, winning this scholar- countries.
nonprofit to help undocu- ford. ship means so much to me Rhodes Scholarships pro-
mented students apply to “I’m just a passionate ad- because it sheds hope for vide all expenses for at
college. vocate for women in gen- students from backgrounds least two years of study at
He hopes to become an eral and that’s mostly be- like my own who have to Oxford. They were created
immigrant advocate, say- cause of my background,” overcome multiple bar- in 1902 in the will of Cecil
ing it’s important for him to she said. “I thought that the riers in pursuit of a higher Rhodes, a British business-
use the opportunity to bet- way I could advocate for education and a better man and Oxford alum who
ter others, not just himself. women could be by advo- future,” said Arroyo, who was a prime minister of the
“When you grow up as an cating for their health.” plans to study engineering Cape Colony in present-
undocumented immigrant At Chapman University in science at Oxford. day South Africa.q
in America, that under-
standing that your talents
don’t really belong to you
in the traditional sense,
that you have to share the
fruits of your labor with oth-
ers, that’s just something
you learn,” Park said.
Alaleh Azhir, a 21-year old
senior at Johns Hopkins