Editing Rhodes Scholarship (section)

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Challenging some of the convictions of the scholarship's founder is not a recent occurrence. As early as 1931, [[Afrikaans]]-born anti-apartheid lawyer and Rhodes Scholar [[Bram Fischer]]  campaigned for equal rights for all South Africans. This led him to join the [[Communist Party of South Africa]]. Fischer was struck off the roll by the [[Johannesburg Bar Council]] in 1965 after he skipped bail on charges under the [[Suppression of Communism Act, 1950|Suppression of Communism Act]]. He was later arrested and sentenced to life in prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/bram-fischer-a-hero-born-100-years-ago|title=Bram Fischer: a hero born 100 years ago – Nelson Mandela Foundation|website=www.nelsonmandela.org|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> Other Rhodes Scholars have taken on difficult social causes with more success. [[Fred Paterson]] defended workers and unions at a reduced price, before he sat in parliament as the first and only Communist party member in Australian history.<ref name="PeoplesChampion">{{cite book |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Ross |title=The people's champion, Fred Paterson : Australia's only Communist Party member of parliament |date=1997 |publisher=University of Queensland Press |isbn=0702229598 }}</ref> In 1978, former Rhodes Scholar [[Ann Olivarius]] sued [[Yale University]] over their mis-handling of on-campus sexual harassment complaints.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11632346/Sex-harassment-in-British-universities-What-date-rape-inventor-thinks.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11632346/Sex-harassment-in-British-universities-What-date-rape-inventor-thinks.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=What the woman who coined the term 'date rape' thinks of British universities|last=Goldhill|first=Olivia|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=2015-05-27|access-date=2018-11-23|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11570529/Revenge-porn-This-sexual-crime-can-be-stopped-with-street-tactics.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11570529/Revenge-porn-This-sexual-crime-can-be-stopped-with-street-tactics.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Revenge porn: 'Street tactics' can stamp out this industrial scale sexual crime|last=Olivarius|first=Dr Ann|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=2015-05-11|access-date=2018-11-23|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>