Athletic Directors Grope for a Legal Way To Keep Student Athletes off MySpace

Jul 28, 2006

Maybe Laing Kennedy, the athletic director at Kent State University, had it right all along.   Earlier this summer, he banned his student athletes from creating personal web sites on the popular FaceBook Internet portal. Kennedy told the Columbus Dispatch that “we’re really concerned about the safety of our student-athletes and some of the personal information some of them have on there.” Another reason for the decision, stated more obliquely, was that such exposure could hurt the ima
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