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Iowa's pink locker room insults women.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
An adjunct law professor at the University of Iowa said she received death threats after complaining to a local news reporter that the football stadium's pink locker rooms are offensive to women.
Erin Buzuvis noted on her blog that the school has recently renovated the visiting team's locker room by installing pink lockers, pink urinals, and pink sinks. Her blog called the pink facilities "sexist and homophobic" because the message to the visiting team is "You are weak like a girl" or "weak like a gay man."
The visiting team's locker room was first painted pink during the term of former coach Hayden Fry, who wrote in ...
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