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...coach of the Jayhawks, it was Brown's responsibility to the players and students of Kansas that the basketball program remain within NCAA rule boundaries. He may have brought high-school phenom Danny Manning to Kansas and, four years later, a national championship, but Brown's primary responsibility, overriding all others, was the health of the Kansas basketball program...
Some of these men are the missing Black fathers who have had kids with three different mothers, the criminals who sell drugs and shoot each other in alleys, the high-school dropouts who work anonymous jobs and live in anonymous sections of the cities. Some of them are the success stories unnecessarily pointed to by well-meaning white liberals as "proof" that some Blacks can become useful members of society. In reality, they are individual men who have done nothing more than follow the different motivating factors that life has presented them...
...current method of determining whether a high-school recruit is qualified to attend college in the Ivy League is through the Academic Index (AI)--which converts class rank, SAT scores and grades into a sum which is supposed to reflect a student's academic aptitude. If a score is above the AI cutoff point--161--the athlete is qualified for admission. If the score falls short, even by a single point, then the athlete...
...great was her desire to go to Harvard that she almost didn't apply anywhere else, much to the dismay of her high-school guidance counselor...
They posit that the United States needs more institutions to ease students' transitions from being irresponsible high-school kids to acting as adult citizens. City Year, Khazei says, "is more than taking a year off; it is developed as a bridge between youth and adulthood...