University Of Iowa Pink Locker Room

The pink locker room tradition has been continued with the newly renovated locker rooms which include everything from pink urinals to pink lockers.

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. 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. 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. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university.

He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. 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. For more than three decades the walls of the visitors locker room at the university of iowa s kinnick stadium have been pink. 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.

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. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998.