Some basketball players do not quit the team and leave early: Dec. 10 marks the 60th anniversary of one of UCLA's most distinguished alumni, Ralph J. Bunche, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. "As a political science major at UCLA, he excelled as a debater, wrote columns for the Daily Bruin, reigned as a star basketball player and ultimately graduated summa cum laude. Bunche, who had put himself through college with an athletic scholarship and a janitorial job, was UCLA's valedictorian in 1927."