Pink Locker Room

The iowa hawkeyes have a pink visiting team locker room at their kinnick stadium conceived by iowa coach hayden fry who had majored in psychology at baylor university.

Pink locker room.

3 michigan 9 1 7 1 big ten. Link to the article follows. For the past 40 years the kinnick stadium locker room for visiting teams has been painted pink and during a 2004 renovation pink lockers toilets and showers were installed. Sports teams sometimes paint the opposing team s locker room pink to keep the players passive and less energetic.

The school rebuilt its pink locker room in 2005 during a stadium renovation project and it has been the subject of controversy since. Improving the culture of hawkeye football should include repainting the pink walls and replacing the pink toilets lockers showers in the visiting team s locker room. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. Controversy flared during the 2005 season when a visiting law professor along with other university faculty and students protested the pink coloration as demeaning to women and homosexuals.

I agree with the author of a letter to the editor in a recent edition of the gazette. A university professor at the time erin buzubis made it her goal to get the locker room back to normal and iowa fans responded by selling pink apparel with the hawkeye logo all over it. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people.