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What do you think? Should the long-standing tradition be kept or should this PITA lawyer get her way? I guess you know which way I will vote. 
BTW- She and her cohorts showed up at a news conference wearing pink "To show strength". So which is it, lady? Girlie man or strength?
Bo Schembechler used to say it was a bunch of baloney and wouldn't affect his teams, yet he brought rolls of newsprint to be put up before his teams entered the locker room.
Law professor gets death threats over pink locker room
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A University of Iowa law professor said she has received death threats after voicing her objections over the pink visitors' locker room at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.
Erin Buzuvis, 29, who moved from Boston to Iowa City to begin teaching at the law school, said she and several friends, colleagues and neighbors have been concerned for months about the message behind the locker rooms. She said the locker room promotes negative stereotypes.
Former Hawkeye football coach Hayden Fry had the visiting team's locker room painted pink in the 1970s. University officials have kept the color and expanded its use with the renovation under way at the stadium.
The carpeting, metal lockers, brick walls, sinks, shower floor -- even the urinals -- are pink.
"I've heard this is a way to honor a great coach, and Fry was a great coach," Buzuvis said. "But I don't think it does him any honor to perpetuate what is seen by many as a sexist and homophobic gesture."
Buzuvis said she will raise the locker room issue Tuesday when a committee seeks public comment on a report it recently compiled on the university's compliance with NCAA regulations. The NCAA requires that each school investigate every five years to see if it is complying with NCAA rules. The locker room issue was not raised in the report. Gender equity apparently was one item on a list of topics for which the panel has solicited comments.
After Buzuvis made her comments Thursday to a Cedar Rapids reporter, she began to receive electronic messages.
The angry electronic messages numbered more than 75 by Friday afternoon.
"I did not wake up yesterday with a plan to discuss pink locker rooms," Buzuvis said Friday. "I don't want any more hate mail. This has got to stop."
Buzuvis has not contacted police over the threats.
"With a pink locker room, you're saying that 'You are a girlie man. You are weak, like a girl,' "Buzuvis said. "That implies that girls are nondominant, therefore, lesser. And that is offensive."
Law professor Jill Gaulding said the issue also is a sore spot among members of the women's hockey team, and she has heard similar complaints from others on campus and around town.
"This is an Iowa City issue," Gaulding said. "There are a lot of people out there who, if they felt safe saying so, would say that this has bugged them for years.
Sports Information Director Phil Haddy said the department has no plans to change the color. He dismissed Buzuvis' concerns as "someone trying to grab a little fame."
He said the pink color is not a boy-girl issue. He said Fry intended the locker room to be a passive color he hoped would put opponents in a passive mood.
BTW- She and her cohorts showed up at a news conference wearing pink "To show strength". So which is it, lady? Girlie man or strength? Bo Schembechler used to say it was a bunch of baloney and wouldn't affect his teams, yet he brought rolls of newsprint to be put up before his teams entered the locker room.
Law professor gets death threats over pink locker room
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A University of Iowa law professor said she has received death threats after voicing her objections over the pink visitors' locker room at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.
Erin Buzuvis, 29, who moved from Boston to Iowa City to begin teaching at the law school, said she and several friends, colleagues and neighbors have been concerned for months about the message behind the locker rooms. She said the locker room promotes negative stereotypes.
Former Hawkeye football coach Hayden Fry had the visiting team's locker room painted pink in the 1970s. University officials have kept the color and expanded its use with the renovation under way at the stadium.
The carpeting, metal lockers, brick walls, sinks, shower floor -- even the urinals -- are pink.
"I've heard this is a way to honor a great coach, and Fry was a great coach," Buzuvis said. "But I don't think it does him any honor to perpetuate what is seen by many as a sexist and homophobic gesture."
Buzuvis said she will raise the locker room issue Tuesday when a committee seeks public comment on a report it recently compiled on the university's compliance with NCAA regulations. The NCAA requires that each school investigate every five years to see if it is complying with NCAA rules. The locker room issue was not raised in the report. Gender equity apparently was one item on a list of topics for which the panel has solicited comments.
After Buzuvis made her comments Thursday to a Cedar Rapids reporter, she began to receive electronic messages.
The angry electronic messages numbered more than 75 by Friday afternoon.
"I did not wake up yesterday with a plan to discuss pink locker rooms," Buzuvis said Friday. "I don't want any more hate mail. This has got to stop."
Buzuvis has not contacted police over the threats.
"With a pink locker room, you're saying that 'You are a girlie man. You are weak, like a girl,' "Buzuvis said. "That implies that girls are nondominant, therefore, lesser. And that is offensive."
Law professor Jill Gaulding said the issue also is a sore spot among members of the women's hockey team, and she has heard similar complaints from others on campus and around town.
"This is an Iowa City issue," Gaulding said. "There are a lot of people out there who, if they felt safe saying so, would say that this has bugged them for years.
Sports Information Director Phil Haddy said the department has no plans to change the color. He dismissed Buzuvis' concerns as "someone trying to grab a little fame."
He said the pink color is not a boy-girl issue. He said Fry intended the locker room to be a passive color he hoped would put opponents in a passive mood.
The professor needs to get a life. 
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