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And at ver xford On Location with Our Two Rhodes Scholars by Sally Holm OXFORD, UK – They have landed in this fabled kingdom of the mind in The Cotswolds of England where they are among the chosen ones to take advantage of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, created to promote the public good. And what better preparation than Oxford University, that 800-plus-year-old bastion of intellectualism? And what better preparation for Oxford than Andover? These two students reveal hauntingly similar drives and motivations, though they come at them from different directions. Both seemed poised on the edge of forging new interdisciplinary approaches that may well become new fields of study. Jisung Park ’04 is keen to better integrate considerations of environmental sustainability into the world’s social and economic choices. Abigail Seldin ’05 is passionate about making anthropologists and museums not just repositories of facts and artifacts, but agents of change that help us understand Earth’s people through the lenses of identity and social justice. For both, these are unquestionably intentional non sibi quests.
A Non Sibi–like Mandate Seldin and Park seem almost too natural a fit for the vision of the controversial Cecil Abigail Seldin ’05 and Jisung Park ’04 at Magdalen Hall