SPORTS
April 26, 2008 | Chris Foster, Times Staff Writer
Chris Joseph's career is wandering down a road less traveled by other football players. Several of his former UCLA teammates are wringing their hands this weekend, hoping their names are called during the NFL draft. If not, their quest to land a free-agent contract will begin. But Joseph, a starting offensive lineman for three-plus seasons, is training to make the final cut for an even more exclusive goal -- a Rhodes scholarship.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 6, 1999 | SEEMA MEHTA and ANDREW BLANKSTEIN, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
A Mission Viejo woman whose high school studies of the former Soviet Union turned into a fascination with the broken region will get a chance to explore it in depth as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. Jennie S. Han, 22, was among three Californians named Sunday as Rhodes scholars for 2000. Han, a senior at Yale University, learned that she received the prestigious international study award Saturday and said she's still stunned that she was among the 32 American students chosen.
NEWS
May 28, 1995
USC offensive lineman Jeremy Hogue is one of the reasons the Trojans appear on most experts' college football preseason Top 10 lists for the 1995 campaign . But even his football prowess pales in comparison to his classroom performance and his community service work. Hogue, who carries a 3.9 grade point average, is an Academic All-American honors candidate and could become USC's first Rhodes Scholar athlete since quarterback Pat Haden.
NEWS
December 12, 1994 | from Associated Press
Ben Jones didn't have much time Sunday to celebrate his Rhodes scholarship. After all, scholars have to hit the books. "Unfortunately, I have a big exam tomorrow. You can't get away from the exams," said the 22-year-old Princeton University student, one of 32 Americans who received the prestigious academic award. The mechanical engineering student from Falmouth, Mass., said it was a long road to the prize, which offers winners a chance to study next fall at Oxford University in Britain.
SPORTS
August 24, 1994 | EARL GUSTKEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
If you can remember drinking coffee, popping No-Doz and studying all night for a college economics exam, and then being grateful for getting a C, you'll find USC center Jeremy Hogue a very annoying guy. Hogue's 3.85 grade-point average ranks him No. 2 academically on the Trojan football team. He aspires to be a Rhodes scholar. So here, you figure, is a guy who has absolutely no fun, watches no TV, has no social life and either studies all night or arises at 3 a.m.
NEWS
December 6, 1993 | Associated Press
Two Harvard University students from California and a student at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont are among this year's Rhodes scholarship winners. Ritu Sonia Batra of Los Angeles and Andre C. Namphy of Palo Alto--both students at the Ivy League school--were among the 32 winners announced Sunday. Claremont McKenna student Ryan M. Iwasaka, of Wailuku, Hawaii, also was awarded the prestigious scholarship. For the first time, women outnumbered men among the winners, 17 to 15.