Oct 26, 2009 — See The New York Times
Instead of chasing after wide receivers in the N.F.L., Myron Rolle came here to chase ghosts around the ancient campus of the University of Oxford. ...He said that nothing had better epitomized and reinforced his Rhodes experience than his unexpected friendship with Aisha Saad. Saad, a Rhodes scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who is studying environmental policy, is a native of Egypt and a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab. She and Rolle agree that social constructs of undergraduate life would probably have precluded them from becoming friends in college. (Note: Saad graduated in 2009 with a double major in environmental health sciences in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and Spanish in the College of Arts and Sciences.)
