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September 26, 2005
Nattering nabobs in Iowa
Stranger than fiction: A University of Iowa professor says the school is violating NCAA regs by having pink locker rooms for opposing football teams. Professor Erin Buzuvis frets, "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."
Not pink, actually, but "Dusty Rose," and the idea originated with Iowa's legendary coach Hayden Fry. The Des Moines Register is on the scene, reporting:
Fry ordered the walls of the old visiting locker room at Kinnick painted pink. A psychology major, Iowa's football coach reasoned that the soothing color might placate some of the savage beasts that had pounded on the Hawkeyes for much of the 1970s.
And, heck, if that didn't work, it would at least give them something to think about - and complain about - rather than focus on the game. The old fox never missed a trick.
Today, the Dark Rose offense extends beyong wall paint and, it seems, into urinals, etc. I'm not sure what to make of this. My beloved Penn State's school colors (they're now blue and white) were once black and pink (everything faded in the sun). Evolving standards of girlie-mannishness? Anyway, more here.
Posted by bill at September 26, 2005 08:27 PM
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