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...Darwinian struggle has gripped girls' sports with a special intensity. Some college recruiters are bypassing high schools and selecting players directly from the club teams. And some high school recruiters are moving even earlier. Charles Morris, 42, of Berkeley, Calif., a technician for Bay Area Rapid Transit, shakes his head as he recalls the coach who, after watching his daughter play basketball, asked what high school she plans to attend. To be sure, the girl, Casey, is a standout player. But she's eight years...
Minorities will also do better, supporters of cascading say, because they will end up on campuses like Irvine that may be more socially welcoming than pressure cookers like Berkeley or UCLA. It's a view some minority students at Irvine share. "A lot of my friends said, 'Berkeley, Berkeley, Berkeley,'" Tiger Dunams, a junior at Irvine, recalls of her college-choosing days. "I went there and looked at it, and it didn't seem like it was the thing for me. My friend goes to Berkeley, and she doesn't really meet people. I'm interacting with professors and graduate...
Irvine students say that although the education is rigorous, the atmosphere is supportive. "A lot of universities, including Berkeley, have a cutthroat attitude--I'm going to do well and I don't care about you," says Karen Fleming, a black sophomore who went to Irvine after turning down Berkeley. "This campus has more of a family feeling." Irvine students say minorities on campus pull for one another, both informally and formally, through the Irvine chapter of the California Alliance for Minority Participation, a program, funded by the National Science Foundation, for minorities in the sciences. "At Berkeley...
...have responded to cascading. Their flagship lawsuit, Rios v. Regents of the University of California, doesn't bother trying to restore affirmative action. Instead it argues that if the U.C. system is going to use race-blind admissions criteria, it really has to be race blind. In calculating GPAs, Berkeley gives extra weight to grades in advanced-placement classes. The problem is, more than half of California schools--many in poor and minority areas--don't even offer these classes. A student who aces every class offered in his high school in the barrio and ends up with 4.0 could...
...behind her peers in speaking and reading and had a hard time making friends. Two years of private speech therapy had failed to bring her up to speed. So her mother Donna enrolled her in "Fast ForWord," a powerful video-game program developed by Scientific Learning Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., to aid children like her who cannot process the sounds of language fast enough to comprehend normal speech. Nicole spent six weeks of intense game playing at a speech clinic in New Jersey, emerging "like a different child," Donna Davis says. Today the ebullient second-grader chatters away with classmates...