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At a time when student voices in Bruin athletics are often
inaudible, founders of Loselavin.com Mehran Ebadolahi and friends
are doing something about it ““ even if that something is a
little tasteless. Frustrated by the team’s inconsistency and
tournament losses, these students are doing everything from selling
T-shirts and distributing flyers to petitioning students and
advertising on Bruin Walk for his termination.
Steve Lavin may very well be failing to live up to high
expectations as coach of the UCLA basketball team. Even though
McDonald’s All-Americans keep pouring in, the national title
draught continues under his guidance. And despite coming through in
the post-season, now-annual roller coaster regular seasons are
almost unbearable for many fans.
But if the “Lavin losers” want to see the basketball
team improve, they might want to reconsider their antagonistic
tactics. Even though they make valid criticisms, the childish
nature of their site may not be the best way to be taken seriously.
Nonetheless, they are entitled to criticize Lavin. And as Lavin
himself notes, it comes with the territory.
The saddest thing, though, is the athletic department’s
typical non-existent reaction to student concerns. If the alumni
who buy the expensive tickets (and displace students from their
rightful floor-seats) were the ones running Web sites and
complaining, Lavin would be long gone. The athletic department can
complain about tastelessness, but maybe resorting to red
circle-slashed images of Lavin’s face and T-shirts are what
students have to resort to in order to get their attention. At
least in the face of such odds, these six young men have refused to
be bullied into taking down their Web site or abandoning their
mission. Students should follow their pro-active example and direct
that energy constructively toward other projects, like getting
better student seating.