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Herky the Hawk’s grimace too ‘aggressive’ for fragile students, Iowa professor says
Washington Times ^
| 08/26/16
| Jessica Chasmar
Posted on 09/14/2016 2:11:00 PM PDT by SES1066
A University of Iowa professor is asking the athletics department to make the university’s mascot, Herky the Hawk, display friendlier facial expressions, arguing that his angry grimace is traumatizing students.
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TOPICS: Education; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: hawkeyes; herky; iowa; oral; snowflakes
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Professor Resmiye Oral, clinical professor of pediatrics; "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,”
End of last month, start of academic year and a marshmallow soft academic weighs in on a school mascot! Mascots are supposed to be TOUGH and intimidating. If you don't like it, go to a school with a nice gentle butterfly or a tree mascot!
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:11:00 PM PDT
by
SES1066
To: SES1066
uhhh, it looks like 3 crosses to me end to end.. but that’s just me.. what’s the problem. ;-)
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:12:16 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: SES1066
To: SES1066
And the mascot inspires the football team to run into the other team and pull them to the ground. Oh the horror!
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:13:10 PM PDT
by
SteveO87
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:13:34 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: SES1066
Whaaaaaaaaaa! U of I needs more safe places.
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:14:40 PM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:14:57 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
To: NormsRevenge
She looks like a humanoid Herky.
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:15:06 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: SES1066
This has GOT to be satire.
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:15:12 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:15:45 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: SES1066
How big of a 18-20 something year old wuss do you have to be to be intimidated by a mascot’s grimace?
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:15:46 PM PDT
by
rey
To: NormsRevenge
Is it a man or a woman? Or a bit of both?
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:15:55 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: NormsRevenge
This scares me more than the mascot.
To: SES1066
LOL...almost got me there, Semmens...
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:16:20 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: SES1066
That’s right. Make the Hawkeye smile......it will be really intimidating to your football opponents! BWAHAHAHAHAH!
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:18:37 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: SES1066
She can go north, unless she's just afraid of big teeth.
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:18:53 PM PDT
by
toast
To: SES1066
more precious snowflakes melting at college campus all around the nation
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:19:12 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: SES1066
My favorite is the UCSB Banana Slugs. No I’m not making it up.
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:19:48 PM PDT
by
22202NOVA
(Misinformed or misunderstood, but NEVER wrong.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
09/14/2016 2:19:53 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
This has GOT to be satire.
The story? Or her hairdo?
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