Word: ucla
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...Play Two Since 1992, five teams have entered the tournament as a No. 1 seed and with two losses on the season. Four have won the national championship: Duke (1992), UCLA (1995), Kentucky (1996) and Connecticut (1999). Stanford is the only team in this year's field to fill both qualifications...
...UCLA forward Ed O'Bannon was the last player to win the Wooden Award in the same year his team won the NCAA title (1995). Three others have pulled the double feat: Louisville's Darrell Griffth (1980), Kansas' Danny Manning (1988) and Duke's Christian Laettner (1992). Michael Jordan was named the Wooden Award winner in 1984, two years after his North Carolina team won the national championship. UNLV's Larry Johnson won the Wooden Award in 1991, the year after the Runnin' Rebels were shocked by Duke in their bid to repeat as champions...
...focus more on evaluating the high schools that students come from. "If we don't have SAT any longer, we'll have to weigh more heavily on what's left--the students' GAP, their curriculum of college-prep courses and other things," says Rae Lee Siporin, admissions director of ucla, which receives more applications each year--about 40,000--than any other U.S. college. But those measures can amplify the inequalities among high schools even more than the SAT. As Duke University admissions director Christoph Guttentag notes, "The students in school districts with more resources will be more equipped...
...Some observers cast a cynical eye at the idea of KKK-sponsored civic activism. This Adopt-a-Highway challenge was a dare of sorts, says UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, a constitutional law and First Amendment expert. "Nobody wants to publicize the KKK's agenda, and so the group has to find a way to make news. And with this case, the KKK gets to style itself as a defender of First Amendment rights against a government that, in the mind of the KKK, has been taken over by all these anti-white people," Volokh says...
...graduate. With the advent of the SAT, the university stopped monitoring high school education and started accepting fewer students. Over the years, applications soared, and a series of increasingly bitter fights began over who would get the increasingly precious slots, especially at the university's flagship schools, Berkeley and UCLA. During the late '80s and early '90s, Berkeley admitted half of its freshman class purely by a numerical formula in which SAT scores were the most important element. Because of the substantial gap among the races on the SAT, the schools could maintain a substantial minority presence only by explicitly...