4A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 2,2002
FACE-OFF
When is a public figure not a public figure?
Face-Off is a weekly project of the Kansan editorial board.
Each Wednesday two editorial board members will argue opposing sides of a hot-button issue that affects students at the University of Kansas. We hope that this section will help students to understand both sides of an argument and make
better decisions about their own beliefs.
benefits. If you have a suggestion for a topic that could be used in Face-Off, or if you would like to join the editorial board, please call Maggie Koerth or Amy Potter at 864-4924. You can also email suggestions to opinion@kansan.com.
Coach should practice good sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is the most important element of athletics. Education is the most important element of a university Therefore, teaching sportsmanship is the most important element of university athletics.
It is important that Mark Mangino win games, but, because he is an example to his players, it is essential that he embody sportsmanship.
On Sept. 20 Mangino failed at this.
The KU football coach reportedly approached referees after his son's Lawrence High School football game and yelled at them.
Certainly one can understand that Mangino might have disagreed with play, but if he wanted to tell referees about his disagreement, it was his obligation to conduct himself as a professional.
It was his obligation to restrain himself and control his emotions.
sen and counter them.
Mangino has said the issue that upset him was a missed late-hit call that could have protected his son from injury. When a child is hurt, it is only natural for his parents to be incensed.
Any decent parent would have questioned the call.
However, other parents would have made their grips from the bleachers. And other parents are not representatives of the University of Kansas.
To say Mangino has been on the hot seat since he arrived at the University is
an understatement.
Ardent Kansas fans have high hopes for the touted football patriarch.
If the Jayhawks become a force in Big 12 Conference football, he will be a hero.
If they fizzle, he will bear the brunt of the blame. He is under the public microscope.
His behavior at that high school football game has been highly scrutinized and perhaps even blown out of proportion.
But this sort of attention comes with the territory as football coach of a Division I team, and his actions were inappropriate.
Mangino now faces a challenge. How does he fulfill his duty to personify sportsmanship? So far, he has both defended his actions and offered an apology. These statements may dampen the current fire and quiet the press, but they do not have adequate long-term effects.
To counteract last weekend's actions in a meaningful way, he must set a tone of sportsmanship in the football program. His conduct can set an example for the team, for the Athletics Department and for KU.
He has the opportunity to create a tradition of excellence on the field and in the bleachers.
Mark Lyda for the Editorial Board
Mangino right to stand up for son
The duty of a father comes first.
The Kansas football coach, Mark Mangino, was reportedly seen yelling at game officials Sept. 20 after his son took a late tackle in the Lawrence High School football game. Mangino's son was injured and had to be taken out of the game.
The incident has caused Big 12 Conference hoopla.
Mangino acted on instinct to protect his son.
His actions as a parent shouldn't be looked at differently because he is the KU football coach. Mangino's role as a father supercedes his role as a football coach, and his actions are understandable.
When Mangino is present at his son's high school football game, he should be viewed as a spectator in the audience.
Whether he stands on the sideline or sits in the bleachers, he is there to support his son and the Lawrence High
team.
Watching the game as a father, Mangino saw the play from a different perspective. He wanted the officials to take action. And as a disgruntled fan, he handled the situation himself. Mangino demonstrated the role he will always play, that of a father.
Although Mangino is a public figure, his actions were outside his duties as a football coach at KU.
When crazy soccer moms jump on officials for an unjust call, pictures aren't splattered on the front page of local and regional newspapers.
In every high school sport, parents act in the same manner but are not reprimanded.
Unfortunately, Mangino's situation was treated differently.
was treated differently. Mangino gave a public apology on his radio show late Thursday evening. The apology, which included the admission of inappropriate behavior, was unnecessary.
He shouldn't have to apologize for acting as a parent. He had his son's best interest in mind and vocalized his thoughts.
A minor scuffle at a high school football game shouldn't require an apology, nor should it reflect his coaching ability, parenting choices or position as a role model.
Lawrence High officials could have ended the frenzy of attention from the press by banning Mangino from his son's next home game. This is a customary punishment for outbursts from fans in Lawrence public schools, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. The fact that they didn't shows they didn't view this as the big deal it has been portrayed to be.
People aren't perfect. Parents make mistakes, and all parents, celebrity or non-celebrity, should be treated the same.
Christy Hass dissenting.
PERSPECTIVES
Strip club ads don't skirt 'Kansan' style guidelines
paper.
T take a look, if you haven't already, at the Bada Bing advertisement running in today's
run?
Eye catching, wouldn't you say?
If that one isn't, how about the larger one that ran in Sex on the Hill, which included a girl falling out of her shirt claiming "Our Girls Will Blow...your minds."
I have heard it said that a newspaper is nothing more than the product of its advertisers.
To a degree, this can be true.
Many people don't realize that while the Kansan receives funding through student fees, most of its revenue comes from advertising.
Then to what degree does a staff have authority over what advertisements are
If that money is so desperately needed to print a daily newspaper that depends heavily on which ads go in, wouldn't it make sense that the staff runs anything and everything it can get it's hands on?
The Kansan advertising acceptance policy clearly states "All advertising is subject to approval by the acceptance committee."
According to Matt Fisher, sales and marketing advisor, that policy is not often necessary.
READERS' REPRESENTATIVE
If an advertisement is illegal, libelous, misleading, discriminatory or controversial in any manner, the acceptance committee may review it.
Sometimes the committee will call the person behind the ad and request a change be made.
Laurel Burchfield
lburchfield@kansan.com
"As long as the people are fully clothed and are not participating in a vulgar action, the Kansan can and will run them."
If necessary, the committee can and has chose to flat out refuse to run an ad.
Yet, the policy does not specifically state anything pertaining to distasteful advertisements.
As long as the people are fully clothed and are not participating in a vulgar action, the Kansan can and, as can be seen by the weekly appearances of such ads as Bada Bing, will run them.
Complaints about such ads being distasteful and possibly pornographic have arisen, yet the Kansan staff feels that Bada Bing as a strip club is merely advertising what the business offers.
An advertisement also running in this week's publications deals with a different type of discrimination.
Unless the advertisement specifically uses discriminatory language or images.
the committee cannot claim that any discrimination is apparent.
Yet there will always be someone who feels, despite the specific language used, that a certain ad is discriminatory, distasteful, or even wrong.
To those individuals, Fisher suggests taking a very proactive approach. Advertisements are available to anyone, not just business or organizations.
As long as the ad is once again free of discrimination and fits the other guidelines of the Kansan's acceptance policy, then the individual has every right to place his or her own ad against one that is currently running.
Burchfield is a Basehor sophomore in journalism, education and english.
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This is to the guy who got caught having sex in the library. Can't you find somewhere else to copulate? Nobody wants, like, your
--sperm in the stacks. Nobody.
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Somebody stole my pizza pan. It's circular,
and it's black. And I want it back. I live in
apartment C.
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This is for the guy that called in about Buckethead. If he knew anything about Buckethead, he'd realize that he was never a member of Primus, only friends with the bassist. And he didn't even meet the bassist until he had four albums of his own. So maybe he should not condemn other people for not knowing who he is.
My physical anthropology TA, Mary, is so absolutely gorgeous she makes Punnett squares sexy.
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I'd just like to say that at the football game on Saturday, I wasn't one of the 20 people that got a scholarship. I was the one in a million person who got crapped on by a bird. Lucky me.
When Clinton was in office, we had plenty of weed. But with Bush is in office, now all we have is coke. And nobody wants to do coke.
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My neighbors called the cops on us, as we did them at the same time. But, for some reason, they didn't know that when you call the cops at an apartment complex, they came to the apartment of those that placed the call. And one of them got an MIP. So next time, they should just call the Milspec, or just hide the bear if you're an underage drinker.
Note to self: don't pet the skunks
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Custard fact 27: There are over 25 addictive chemicals found in today's custard. Knowledge is contagious, baby.
Donald Rumsfeld is my boy toy.
Happy one year anniversary, Sweet cheeks. I love you.
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