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Maryland's Alyssa Thomas shoots as Navy's Alix Membreno defends during the second half of an NCAA tournament first-round women's college basketball game Saturday, March 17, 2012, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

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Melissa Jenkins sits with her mother Diana, right, on her childhood bed where she has been sharing her old room with her younger sister on Saturday, April 19, 2008, in North Reading, Mass. Melissa moved back home to live with her parents to find work after graduating college last year. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper)

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Ice Cube (left) is the surly commander of the Jump Street police division, which sends Jonah Hill (center) and Channing Tatum undercover in high school to find youth crime. (Columbia Pictures-Sony via Associated Press)

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**FILE** Attorney General Eric Holder speaks March 5, 2012, at the Northwestern University law school in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** The gates of Harvard University lead to a school with a $13 billion endowment and a ranking as the university with the best reputation in the world. (Associated Press)

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Lydia Bauer holds a trophy and her sister, Audrey, holds a plaque after winning a tournament with their grade-school team at St. John's Lutheran School in Libertyville, Ill., coached by dad Andrew Bauer. Their mom was a high school coach. (Bauer family)

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Katy Butler, 17, a high school student, from Ann Arbor, Mich., poses by the petitions she delivered to the Motion Picture Association of America, Wednesday March 7, 2012, in Los Angeles. Butler is urging the MPAA to change the "R" rating to a "PG" for the "Bully" film. With her petition, Butler said that she was speaking out for all students who suffer every day from bullying. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Students walk March 12, 2012, across the Dartmouth College campus green in Hanover, N.H. More than a quarter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's membership has been accused by the school's judicial council of hazing after a former member's public airing of what he says he experienced as a pledge in 2009, including being forced to swim in a kiddie pool of vomit and other bodily fluids. (Associated Press)

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Oakland Hall is the dormitory where Alexander Song, a University of Maryland sophomore was living on campus before being arrested Sunday after posting online comments in which he made threats about going on a "Shooting Rampage" on "The Mall," an outdoor area of campus. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, autographs a poster at a caucus site at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Saturday, March 10, 2012, in Shawnee, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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**FILE** Grant Beacon Middle School student Jeriah Garcia, 13, works out an algebra problem on his school-supplied iPad in class at Grant, Colo. (Associated Press/The Denver Post)

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Voters cast their ballots at the Sarah Smith Elementary School in Atlanta's North Buckhead area on March 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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People hug after the burial of Daniel Parmertor at All Soul's Cemetery, Saturday, March 3, 2012, in Chardon, Ohio. Parmertor and two others were fatally shot Monday at Chardon High School. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at Chillicothe High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, Friday, March 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

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The remains of the Henryville High school are examined by firefighters and residents of Henryville following severe storms that went through the area, Friday, March 2, 2012, in Henryville, Ind. Tornadoes ripped across several small southern Indiana towns on Friday, killing at least three people and leaving behind miles of flattened devastation along the border with Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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Supporters cheer as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks to a crowd in a gymnasium at a rally at Skyline High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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"Undefeated" is a documentary about an underdog high school football team in Memphis, Tenn., whose fortunes changed because of the dedication of a volunteer coach. (Photo courtesy The Weinstein Co.)

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A scene from the documentary "Undefeated" about an underdog high school football team, the Manassas Tigers, whose fortunes were reversed due to coach Bill Courtney. (The Weinstein Company)

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THE WALK-ON: Jon Dillard was on a club team before making the Terps. (University of Maryland Athletics)

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THE INTERNATIONAL: Center Berend Weijs of the Netherlands says he came to the U.S. for school because "My dad made me." He will leave with a college degree. (Associated Press)