University Of Iowa Pink Locker Room

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.

University of iowa pink locker room.

Former iowa coach hayden fry had the hawkeyes visiting locker room painted pink in 1979 purportedly as a means to gain a pregame psychological advantage against opponents. The university of iowa is aware that some people are calling for the visitors locker room in kinnick stadium to be painted a different color while others have stated it should retain its. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. Recently iowa has drawn criticism about the locker room with some calling it pink shaming in 2013 a former iowa professor said that the university could be subject to a legal challenge based.

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. The pink locker room tradition has been continued with the newly renovated locker rooms which include everything from pink urinals to pink lockers. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. When the football stadium was renovated in 2005 the university took the theme even further adding new lockers showers and urinals all featuring various shades of the color.

But back in 1979 iowa coach hayden fry thinking it would give. 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.