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RHODES SCHOLAR
Recent Georgetown Graduate And Marine Reservist Named
Georgetown University graduate Pravin S. Rajan, currently in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve assigned to an office in College Park, has been named a 2008 Rhodes scholar.
Rajan, who graduated this year, wrote in his scholarship essay that he was inspired to join the Marines by conditions in his parents' native India. He wrote that he wanted "a more direct participation in America's global role than any ordinary job could provide."
At Georgetown, Rajan served as the elected student body president during his sophomore year, the youngest person ever to hold the post. He also co-founded the first male student group to foster discussion of sexual assault and men's role in stopping it.
The Rhodes Scholarship funds two to three years at Oxford University in England. Rajan plans to research the impact of military interventions on the Middle East.
-- Valerie Strauss
