The mascot and the logo for the University of Iowa’s sports teams are
terrifying and promote aggression and violence, according to a deeply
concerned medical school professor at the taxpayer-funded school. The pediatrics professor,
Resmiye Oral,
is urging the Big 10 school’s athletic department to modify the logo
and the various facial expressions of the mascot, Herky the Hawk,
according to the Iowa City Press-Citizen. “I believe incoming students should be met with welcoming, nurturing,
calm, accepting and happy messages,” Oral wrote in an email to the
athletic department this week. “And our campus community is doing a
great job in that regard when it comes to words. However, Herky’s angry,
to say the least, faces conveying an invitation to aggressivity and
even violence are not compatible with the verbal messages that we try to
convey to and instill in our students and campus community.”...
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