In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.