The NCAA Is Making An Example Of UConn Basketball  The NCAA
needs to throw out a few numbers every once in a while to make
it look like it's serious about the "student" half of the free
labor it loves to describe as "student-athletes." For a while,
the NCAA would publish graduation rates in accordance with
financial aid-related legislation. Then the NCAA developed its
own metric: the APR, or Academic Progress Rate, which the NCAA
defines as "a term-by-term measure of eligibility and retention"
that is supposed to function as "an early indicator of eventual
graduation rates." In other words, instead of churning out press
releases that explicitly say how few student-athletes graduate,
the NCAA can shake its head disapprovingly and say a particular
program "fell below the APR threshold." Because the NCAA is
serious about this, you see.  Which brings us to UConn
basketball, which yesterday was declared ineligible for
postseason tournaments next year because it failed to reach a
score of 900 on its APR. (Over the