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...becoming known as a powerhouse for minority scientists-in-training. Many blacks and Hispanics say it's a far more supportive place than other U.C. campuses with bigger names and better reputations. "We're a hidden secret," says Genae Jefferson, an African-American physics major who chose Irvine over UCLA. "But a lot of people don't realize it until they get here...
...disaster for minority education? The problem is, the rising minority enrollment at Irvine is largely a result of California's two-year-old ban on affirmative action at public colleges. As preferences were removed that had helped minorities qualify for the top U.C. campuses, notably Berkeley and UCLA, students who once would have gone there were redistributed down to such less selective campuses as Irvine. In California it is known as cascading, because minorities are sliding down from high-ranked schools to lower-ranked ones...
...system can be divided, by general consensus, into three tiers of quality. At the top are Berkeley, UCLA and fast-rising U.C. San Diego. In the middle are Irvine, Davis and Santa Barbara. And then there are Santa Cruz and Riverside. The rollback of affirmative action has had only a small impact on admissions to U.C. as a whole--the eight U.C. campuses took 47,804 students this year, 7,439 of them black, Hispanic and Native American--only 27 fewer minority students than in 1997, the last year race was part of the process. But the new rules have...
...great ballplayer, a .311 career hitter whose trademark was rattling pitchers and fielders with his daring base running. He wasn't the best Negro League talent at the time he was chosen, and baseball wasn't really his best sport--he had been a football and track star at UCLA--but he played the game with a ferocious creativity that gave the country a good idea of what it had been missing all those years. With Jackie in the infield, the Dodgers won six National League pennants...
BORN Jan. 31, 1919, in Cairo, Ga. 1939 Enrolls at UCLA; stars in football and track 1942 Enlists in the U.S. Army 1945 Signs with Kansas City Monarchs of Negro League; later, signs with Brooklyn Dodgers farm team in Montreal 1947 Begins playing for the Dodgers 1949 Wins National League's Most Valuable Player award 1956 Plays final season 1962 Inducted into Hall of Fame DIED Oct. 24, 1972, in Stamford, Conn...