Basketball teams, not 'Playboy,' should get front page

I have a pair of complaints about what the IDS is printing in its pages and where it is printing it.\nI do not understand the IDS' decision to run a front page story about an interview a former coach gave to a nudie magazine ("Knight blasts University officials," Feb. 1).\nIn his discussion with Playboy, Knight offered no new information, and thus, the article wasn't terribly newsworthy. The error of printing this story on the front page would not be so egregious but for the fact that the CURRENT men's basketball team played and won a hard-fought road game in the Big Ten and the IDS thought page 14 would be a good place to run that story.\nI am an IU basketball fan. I was last year; I was 15 years ago. Please, don't make any one man, any one former employee, more important than the program itself. I realize a picture of Knight screaming (something he did far less than many coaches) and the Playboy logo is a sexy pair of images to put on a newspaper, but you are a free publication! We will read it! You needn't resort to un-newsworthy and salacious eye-catchers.\nAlso, please consider curbing the publishing of alumni letters. I am rather tired of those in Dallas, or those in Tennessee, or those who saw "The Hall rock in the '70s" complaining about IU. This paper is for students, not for the complaints of disgruntled alumni. In fact, all of these indignant guys should be happy now, because their beloved General has given them all a "righteous" excuse to read Playboy ("just for the interview").