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Shanor Selected To Receive
Annual Rhodes Scholarship

Second-year law student Charles A.
Shanor has been selected by the Trustees
of the Rhodes Scholarship Fund as one of
this year's 32 Rhodes Scholars.

Established by Cecil J. Rhodes in
1903, Rhodes Scholarships are annually
awarded in the United States and the
United Kingdom. Requirements are set in
areas of intellect, personal character,
leadership, moral courage and physical
vigor.

A candidate must be between 18 and
24 years of age, male and at least a junior
in college to compete.

Once selected a student is awarded a $1,000
per year stipend at Oxford University. He may
pursue the study of his choice for two years
with a possible extension into a third year.

The emphasis at Oxford is on a tutorial
system, with weekly submission of papers and
an examination at the end of the two year
period.

Competition for the scholarship takes place
in three stages. Applicants are first screened by
their university and then sent to state
competition, either in their home state or in the
state where they attend school.

Each state then sends two finalists to the
regional competition which chooses four
Rhodes Scholars. The competition consists
largely of intensive interviews.

Mr. Shanor, a resident of Gainesville, Fla.,
competed as a candidate from his home state
and was selected for one of four scholarships
from the Southern District. This region includes
the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.

Having already received an induction notice
which is presently under a postponement order,
Mr. Shanor said, "If I don't get drafted this
summer, I'll to England in late September
and will live at Christ Church College in Oxford,
studying jurisprudence leading to a Bachelor of
Common Law (B.C.L.)," according to the
Law Weekly. Upon successful completion of
the two-year course, Mr. Shanor also will be
awarded a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the
Law School.

Mr. Shanor is presently a member of the
Virginia Law Review, the Legal Aid Society and
the Law School Civil Rights Research Council.
This semester he is taking 22 hours of courses
to cover essential American law courses which
are not offered in England.

He anticipates a different approach to law
study over there, with an emphasis on the
history and philosophy of law. His plans upon
completion of study in England include
practicing law in the United States, concentrating
on solutions to some of the pressing social
problems confronting America the cities,
poverty, pollution and civil rights.

Mr. Shanor was a 1968 cum laude graduate
of Rice University. While there he was student
body president, president of the Houston
Council of Colleges and member of the Ford
Foundation Honors Program in English.

When Mr. Shanor arrives in England, he will
join another member of the Law School, 1969
Rhodes Scholar Charles C. Calhoun, who is
working on a Bachelor of Arts degree in
jurisprudence at Oxford.

University graduate William Wright, now a
student at Harvard University was also selected
this year as a Rhodes Scholar.