To the editor:

As a Jayhawk who now lives on the East Coast, I have been thrilled by the coverage of Kansas basketball on the KU Sports Web site that the Journal-World hosts. It is great to get the full story of what is happening in Kansas sports even while living so far away. My whole family reads the Web site, which prompts lively discussions.

I am disturbed, however, by the provocative pictures of scantily clad women in the “Women of KU Calendar” advertisements that are on all of the KU Sports Web pages. I do not like having my children see these pictures as the image of the “Women of KU” every time they check the Web site to follow our Jayhawks — either the men’s or women’s teams.

As a physician who is board certified in adolescent medicine and as a mother of a teen female athlete, I am bothered by the message given to our girls and boys of the scantily clothed woman in a provocative pose on a Web site devoted to college athletics. Let’s celebrate the athletic accomplishments of our Jayhawks on our sports pages and put the pin-up calendar advertisements on another site.

Dr. Laura Koenigs

Longmeadow, Mass.