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UBAA Honors a Phenomenal Group of Alumni at its 2008 Annual Awards and Scholarship Benefit

Thank you to all that attended the 39th Annual Scholarship Awards Dinner "Reflections: Reaching Out & Lifting Up."

Special thanks to our sponsors, contributors and donors. It was a beautiful evening with a stellar group of awardees. Check back soon for pictures in our event gallery.

The Scholarship Awards Dinner is an opportunity to showcase the important advocacy work that is done by black alums of UCLA that benefits the African American community at UCLA and beyond. This year's dinner furthers UBAA's mission and honors individuals whose work has been instrumental in meeting the needs of the African American community on and off the UCLA campus.

Congratulations to this year's honorees:
Lifetime Achievement Award - Dr. Warren Valdry, Young Black Scholars Program Creator, Former Airport Commissioner
Humanitarian Award - Norm Abrams, Professor Emeritus -UCLA School of Law
Community Service Award - Peter Taylor, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers & Chair UCLA Foundation
President's Award - D'Artangan Scorza, UC Student Regent
Alumnus of the Year Award - Carolyn Flowers, COO -Metro
Spirit of Victory Award - Brendon Ayanbendejo, Chicago Bears Pro-Bowl Linebacker.

For more information on making a donation to our scholarship program, please e-mail Malcolm Wells at mwells@uclablackalumni.org or call (310) 631-UBAA (8222).

UCLA Men's Basketball Dominates Pac-10 Player of the Year Honors
March 10, 2008 - uclabruins.cstv.com

UCLA freshman center Kevin Love has been selected Pacific-10 Conference Player of the Year by vote of the league's coaches. He was also named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. Sophomore guard Russell Westbrook was named the Pac-10's Defensive Player of the Year. Love is only the second freshman in league history to win the award, which started in 1975-76. The other freshman was California's Shareef Abdur-Rahim in 1996. This is the seventh time a Bruin has captured the award. Junior Arron Afflalo won the award last season, Ed O'Bannon won it in 1995, Kenny Fields in 1983, David Greenwood in 1978 and 1979 and Marques Johnson in 1977. Love is also the third Bruin in the last four years to win the Freshman of the Year Award. Luc Richard Mbah a Moute won it in 2006 and Jordan Farmar earned it in 2005. Other Bruins to capture that award include Jason Kapono (co-winner) in 2000, Baron Davis in 1998, Don MacLean in 1989 and Pooh Richardson (co-winner) in 1986.

The Defensive Player of the Year award won by Westbrook was re-instituted this season. It was previously presented in 1984 through 1986 with UCLA's Nigel Miguel winning it in 1985. Love was also named to the five-man All-Pac-10 first team. Junior guard Darren Collison was named second-team All-Pac-10 and was also named to the All-Defensive Team. Westbrook was named third-team All-Pac-10 and joined Collison on the All-Defensive team. Juniors Luc Richard Mbah a Moute and Josh Shipp earned All-Pac-10 honorable mention from the league's coaches. Love and Mbah a Moute were All-Defensive honorable mention.

Twenty-two outstanding high school seniors have signed letters-of-intent to play football at UCLA; Rick Neuheisel credits Karl Dorrell and his staff for assembling this class.

Fourteen of the new Bruins earned All-America honors from one publication or another. Running backs Aundre Dean and Milton Knox and kicker Jeff Locke were named to the Parade All-America team. Locke and defensive back Rahim Moore were named to the Scout.com All-America squad while Locke (first team), Knox (second team), Dean and Moore (third team) made the EA Sports All-America squad. Knox was also a second-team USA Today All-America selection.

Eight were selected to the PrepStar Dream Team (running back Derrick Coleman, quarterback Nick Crissman, Dean, defensive back Anthony Dye, defensive back Aaron Hester, defensive end Datone Jones, Moore and defensive back E.J. Woods) and six more signees were named to the PrepStar All-America squad (offensive lineman Jeff Baca, defensive end Damien Holmes, Knox, Locke, wide receiver Antwon Moutra and wide receiver Nelson Rosario). In addition, eight were All-Regional selections (offensive lineman Connor Bradford, linebacker Donovan Carter, athlete Johnathan Franklin, tight end Cory Harkey, wide receiver Jerry Johnson, linebacker Patrick Larimore, quarterback Kevin Prince and linebacker Sean Westgate). Read the full story here.

UCLA tops nation again, with more than 55,000 freshman applicants for fall
Applications for freshman enrollment at UCLA jumped by more than 9 percent for fall 2008, with a record 55,369 applications received, making UCLA once again the most popular university in the country among new high school graduates.

Preliminary data indicate that UCLA had a strong uptick of more than 16 percent over the previous year in the number of underrepresented student applicants, receiving 13,331 applications - 2,798 from African Americans, 299 from Native Americans and 10,234 from Chicano/Latinos. The 2007 total was 11,483
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AEOE launches their new website!
UBAA has partnered closely with The Alliance for Equal Opportunity Education ("AEOE") since its inception. It is the community watchdog that ensures equal access for African American admissions and enrollment at UCLA and throughout the UC system. AEOE has convened weekly since June 2006 to address the admissions crisis at UCLA, following the annoucement that only 96 African Americans students enrolled for the 2006 UCLA freshman class. The AEOE regularly meets with the UCLA Chancellor, UC Regents and UC President to insist on immediate steps to reverse the decline in African American student enrollment. Click here to check out their new site!