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Mangino under scrutiny
Kansas coach Mark Mangino looks up to the scoreboard in the final seconds of Saturday's game against Nebraska. Mangino is now the subject of an investigation that was launched into Kansas' football program Monday.
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Former Jayhawks say they aren't surprised by complaints against his coaching behaviors
BY CLARK GOBLE
cgoble@kansan.com
A football player has voiced his complaints regarding physical contact by coach Mark Mangino and former players said they aren't surprised an investigation into Kansas' program was launched Monday.
The brother of senior linebacker Arist Wright confirmed that Wright had complained about physical contact by Mangino with Wright in the past, but hadn't spoken with him recently. His father, Lash Wright, said he told Wright to wait until the end of the season to address the complaints.
"All I want is my kid to make it through these next two games healthy and we'll go from there," Lash Wright said.
"I know that these things happened. But right now, I'm probably too upset to talk about anything. I'm just trying to reach someone down there to find out how he's doing."
Former wide receiver Dexton Fields, who played for the layhawks from 2004-08, said he never had a relationship with Mangino beyond a player/coach relationship. He said he thought Mangino wasn't very well-liked by a lot of players, "probably because of the
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stuff that's surfacing now."
"We understood the motivational things said, but the negative things kind of occurred more than the motivational from him." Fields said. "Some of the assistant coaches stepped in on our behalf. They did more of the verbal abuse but it was to keep him off of us. I think that's part of the reason guys didn't really care for him."
SEE MANGINO ON PAGE 3A
For a timeline of important events in coach Mark Mangino's career and a look at former Kansas football coaches, see page 3A.
AGRICULTURE
Film sheds light on farming industry
BY HALEY JONES
hjones@kansan.com
Faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper: They're the watchwords of the modern American consumer as he peruses the grocery store aisles. And industry's response to his demands can be seen on every shelf.
The country's appetite has changed drastically in the last 50 years with the proliferation of easily accessible processed foods — and inevitably, so has the industry that feeds it. The documentary "Food, Inc," which is showing tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union, explores the often unappetizing production process of food. It also raises many questions for local farmers about their farming practices.
"Food, Inc." investigates large.
national companies that comprise the modern agricultural industry, and is directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner.
Greg Beverlin, Paola junior and co-coordinator for the student environmental activist group Environrs, said seeing "Food, Inc." motivated him to buy locally grown food whenever possible, but he recognized the choice between cost and quality for college students.
"Food, Inc." explains how the nation's systemic dependency on factory farming, which produces the greatest amount of food at the lowest cost, has drastically changed the agricultural landscape. Chickens are no longer raised — they are grown with hormones.
"This movie raises a lot of questions?" Beverlin said.
FACTORY FARMING
Cattle is kept in crowded, unsanitary feed lots and fed an unnatural diet of corn. Then they are pumped full of antibiotics in an effort to kill the bacteria growing in their stomachs as a result of their diet.
The documentary asserts big industry uses a "pastoral fantasy" to sell products like beef and poultry. Although the bagged chicken breasts in the freezer aisle have undergone a very unglamorous
In the United States, livestock consume 70 percent of all ant-microbial drugs, according to the most recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2001.
Farmer Joel Salatin, who owns Polyface Inc. farms in Swoope, Va., was featured in "Food, Inc." He said in an e-mail he adamantly opposed this practice because it compromised the original integrity of farming.
process prior to arriving in the grocery store, the idyllic agrarian imagery on its packaging suggests otherwise. But local farm owner Karen Pendleton said the documentary didn't surprise her a bit.
"Nothing in those movies is anything new," she said. "I agree with a lot of what the movies are saying. I'm just surprised that people didn't know animals were raised that way. Where did they think their chicken came from?"
Pendleton said it was easy to get upset with big business, but the country needed large industry production because it was difficult to feed that many people on a small scale. For instance, if each person in a town of 100,000 — slightly larger than Lawrence — ate chicken for one meal every day, it
SEE FARMING ON PAGE 3A
Karen and John Pendleton operate Pendleton Farms just outside of Lawrence. Karen Pendleton said that the documentary "Food. Inc." didn't surprise her.
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