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June 2007
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Divine Intervention Thou shalt not discriminate. Thus was the commandment handed down by a May federal court to a Kansas school district, which in May settled with a Christian sports group after it had denied the organization privileges commonly afforded to other student groups.
In 2005, a suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., against the Pleasanton School District for refusing to allow the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to use school facilities for free, use school vehicles, appear in the yearbook or raise money on school grounds because of its religious affiliation. An injunction ordering the school district not to discriminate against the club had been in place since January, despite the district's argument that the club could not be a school-sanctioned student group because it wasn't curriculum-based. "To give credit to the school district, they thought they were following the law," Joel L. Oster, attorney for the students, told the Associated Press in June. "After we won the injunction, they said, 'If that's what the law is, then that's what the law is.' " While noting that disputes like this between schools and his organization are uncommon, a Fellowship of Christian Athletes spokesman seemed to feel the outcome was preordained. "This was a pretty rare case, so it did surprise me," said spokesman Tom Rogeberg. "But we also knew how it would come out." 'Wii' Are Sore Since its November 2006 launch, the motion-controlled video game system Nintendo Wii has been a commercial and critical success. The best-selling new console this year, with sales outpacing those of Sony's PlayStation 3, the Wii also has been credited by the International Sports Sciences Association with helping deconditioned individuals get off the couch and exercise (albeit in front of their TV screens). But as strange as it may sound, the innovative game - which allows players to swing a virtual bat or tennis racket by simply waving an interactive handheld controller - is now being charged with contributing to real-life sports injuries. In his recently published letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a Spanish doctor diagnosed acute "Wiiitis," a condition he claimed to have suffered after a long session of Wii Sports tennis left him with a sore elbow. Dr. Julio Bonis of the Research Group in Biomedical Informatics in Barcelona complained in the journal's June issue that, unlike actual tennis or other sports, using a Wii encourages extended play because participation doesn't require strength or endurance. "If a player gets too engrossed, he may 'play tennis' for many hours," wrote Bonis, a family physician. "With the growing use of this new video game system, the risk of the Wiiitis variant may be higher than that of Nintendinitis," a term referring to pain brought on by constant button-pressing on a traditional Nintendo controller. Bonis said he fully recovered from his bout of Wiiitis after taking a few Ibuprofen and spending some time away from his video game system. In the Field
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