The La Verne baseball team's Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship season looked just about over when they lost Saturday at Ben Hines Field, 16-8, to the Chapman Panthers. However on Monday, the Leopards were offered a bid to play in the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship Tournament in Birmingham, Alabama, keeping their tremendous season alive for at least another two games.
Claudette Colvin, an activist and pioneer in the civil rights movement, refused to give up her seat months before Rosa Parks refused hers. She was 15 at the time.
There are few instances, if any, when it is right to use race as a deciding factor in any decision. It is unfair to discriminate against a group of people because they are put into a certain category. History is marred with examples of various group's struggle with discrimination.