Yale Bulletin and Calendar

December 13, 1999-January 17, 2000

Volume 28, Number 16

Jenni S. Han

Yale boasts three Rhodes Scholars

Three outstanding Yale students have won Rhodes Scholarships, making Yale and the United States Military Academy the only institutions this year with as many as three recipients of the coveted awards.

The Yale students -- one senior and two alumni -- are among 29 other men and women who were chosen in a nationwide competition from among 935 applicants in 323 colleges and universities.

Rhodes Scholarships, which support two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, were created by British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes in his will in 1902 -- making them the oldest of international study awards available to American students. The Rhodes Trust pays all fees and provides a stipend to cover expenses during both the academic year and during vacations. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of the students' high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership and physical vigor.

Profiles on the Yale students who have won Rhodes Scholarships follow:

Ariel David Adesnik, who graduated from Yale College in 1998 with a degree in history, wrote a column for the Yale Daily News, and won the Thacher Memorial Prize for Public Speaking and the John Nicholas Spangler Scholarship for character and ability. Also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he was a freshman counselor at Yale and worked for the TIES program, which offered tutoring to New Haven public school students. Adesnik, of New York City, was awarded a Fullbright grant to study in Germany, but declined it to be a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Jennie S. Han, a Calhoun College senior from Mission Viejo, Calif., is working toward a joint M.A. and B.A. in political science. Han, whose interest is the former Soviet states of central Asia, was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was involved with Reach Out, Speak Out, an undergraduate organization at Yale that trains local high school students in the art of debate. While at Yale, she has also received a Beinecke Brothers Memorial Fellowship and a Wendy Blanning Summer Fellowship.

Rachel Kleinfeld of Fairbanks, Alaska, who graduated from Yale College in 1998 with a degree in ethics, politics and economics, was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is a human rights activist interested in history and international diplomacy. Kleinfeld founded a chapter of Amnesty International at Yale and edited the Yale Journal of Human Rights. She worked as a neighborhood specialist with New Haven's Livable City Initiative and is a fundraiser for the Settlement Housing Fund in New York City.

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