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Professor receives death threats over pink locker room sexism comment (Updated)
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Posted on 09/26/2005 6:52:40 AM PDT by Hawkeye Boss

Law Professor Gets Death Threats Over Pink Locker Room Buzuvis Says She'll Raise Issue Tuesday

POSTED: 6:06 pm CDT September 24, 2005 UPDATED: 5:34 am CDT September 26, 2005

DES MOINES, Iowa -- University of Iowa President David Skorton said threats sent to a law professor who objects to the pink visitors' locker rooms at Kinnick Stadium won't be tolerated.

Erin Buzuvis said she has received death threats for saying the color scheme promotes sexism and homophobia.

Skorton said "it is deeply offensive and completely unacceptable" that a public discussion about the locker rooms has been degraded by threats of violence. He has asked the Office of the General Counsel, the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, and the Department of Public Safety to review the threats and to take appropriate actions.

The pink locker room goes back to the days of former Iowa coach Hayden Fry, and has been expanded in the current renovation of the stadium -- including the carpeting, metal lockers, brick walls, sinks, shower floor -- even the urinals.

Buzuvis said she will raise the issue on Tuesday when a committee seeks public comment on a report it recently compiled on the university's compliance with NCAA regulations.


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1 posted on 09/26/2005 6:52:40 AM PDT by Hawkeye Boss
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To: Hawkeye Boss

Wrist bending...."She is just so dead."


2 posted on 09/26/2005 6:54:44 AM PDT by Hawkeye Boss
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To: Hawkeye Boss

What would they have done if they decided to paint everything BLACK?...............


3 posted on 09/26/2005 6:55:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Hawkeye Boss

If the death threats were manufactured by her, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.


4 posted on 09/26/2005 6:56:08 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Hawkeye Boss

Intercourse her and the horse she rode in on.


5 posted on 09/26/2005 6:57:52 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Red Badger

i see a red door and i want it painted black...


6 posted on 09/26/2005 6:58:13 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: wideawake

My feelings exactly. And it wouldn't be the first time a college professor has 'manufactured' these types of claims...


7 posted on 09/26/2005 6:59:56 AM PDT by Paisan
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To: Hawkeye Boss
Erin Buzuvis said she has received death threats for saying the color scheme promotes sexism and homophobia.

She thinks a color has the power to promote sexism and homophobia?
8 posted on 09/26/2005 7:00:00 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Hawkeye Boss

I googled the idiot academic last week, and she's a classic college commie, with no connection to reality. I don't think she deserves death threats for being an outspoken moron, but it's always funny to see her type act "shocked shocked" when there's pushback.


9 posted on 09/26/2005 7:00:21 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
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To: camle

Just imagine. Black floor, black walls, black ceiling, black lockers, black tile showers, black toilets and sinks. The visitors would get poor eyesight trying to find their stuff!..........


10 posted on 09/26/2005 7:02:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Hawkeye Boss

Death threats are wrong, but so is she.


11 posted on 09/26/2005 7:03:05 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best things happen just before the thread snaps.)
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To: Piquaboy

What have you got against horses?.,..........nevermind, I don't wanna know........


12 posted on 09/26/2005 7:03:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MaryFromMichigan

It's funny, though, I see fags driving around all the time with those pink triangles as bumper stickers and such. Wasn't that what Hitler made them wear under his Reich? They're all silly and uninformed people.


13 posted on 09/26/2005 7:03:44 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Red Badger

black on black, sounds like he inside of the main ride of "Disaster area". nobody could find the controls!


14 posted on 09/26/2005 7:04:25 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: Hawkeye Boss

What are the odds that she made up these threats herself?


15 posted on 09/26/2005 7:05:27 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: camle

They'd havta feel their way around the locker room............heh heh.....


16 posted on 09/26/2005 7:07:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

or crash into a supernova...


17 posted on 09/26/2005 7:09:03 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: camle

gotta be careful around those BLACK HOLES............


18 posted on 09/26/2005 7:10:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

oh I WON'T go there(LOL)!

any hitchhikkers guide fans out there remember "disaster Area"?


19 posted on 09/26/2005 7:12:03 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: Hawkeye Boss

I'm missing something here.


20 posted on 09/26/2005 7:13:10 AM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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