| | Over time, the award has been increasingly given to [[liberal]] recipients lacking achievement in either sport or academics. For example, scholarship recipient [[Bill Clinton]] had no known sporting achievement and refused to release his suspect academic record either. He took the scholarship money for attending Oxford but could not earn a degree there. | | Over time, the award has been increasingly given to [[liberal]] recipients lacking achievement in either sport or academics. For example, scholarship recipient [[Bill Clinton]] had no known sporting achievement and refused to release his suspect academic record either. He took the scholarship money for attending Oxford but could not earn a degree there. |
| − | In 2002, a Rhodes scholarship was awarded to Chesa Boudin, best known for being the child of [[Kathy Boudin]] and [[David Gilbert]], who were members of the international terrorost group, the [[Weather Underground]]. Boudin and Gilbert are currently serving long sentences in prison for their part in the murder of two police officers and a guard "as the result of a robbery of a Brinks armored car in New York at the late, unradical date of 1981."<ref name="Chesa">Slate.com, ''Weatherson: Chesa Boudin, radical chic Rhodes scholar'', by Emily Yoffe, Posted Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 [http://www.slate.com/?id=2075224]</ref> Chesa expressed support for the views of his parents, "My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I'm dedicated to the same thing."<ref name="Chesa"/> | + | In 2002, a Rhodes scholarship was awarded to Chesa Boudin, best known for being the child of [[Kathy Boudin]] and [[David Gilbert]], who were members of the international terrorist group, the [[Weather Underground]]. Boudin and Gilbert are currently serving long sentences in prison for their part in the murder of two police officers and a guard "as the result of a robbery of a Brinks armored car in New York at the late, unradical date of 1981."<ref name="Chesa">Slate.com, ''Weatherson: Chesa Boudin, radical chic Rhodes scholar'', by Emily Yoffe, Posted Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 [http://www.slate.com/?id=2075224]</ref> Chesa expressed support for the views of his parents, "My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I'm dedicated to the same thing."<ref name="Chesa"/> |