How to respond to violence within teens? It's time to take another look at the role of the high school jock.

``If you're a jock, you're dead.''

That's what Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold allegedly announced on April 20, as they began their cold-blooded rampage through Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.

But that's also the part of their story that President Clinton ignored when he returned to Littleton on Thursday, the one-month anniversary of the massacre.

The president should be applauded for decrying the boys' penchant for firearms and their Nazi-inspired racism, transmitted in quasi-secret via e-mails and Web pages.

Yet Harris and Klebold were much more open about their animus against athletes. In the months preceding the tragedy, they …