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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...

Professor Says Pink Locker Room Promotes Sexism, Homophobia U Of I Professor Challenges Iowa's Compliance With NCAA POSTED: 10:44 am CDT September 23, 2005 UPDATED: 11:05 am CDT September 23, 2005 IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A University of Iowa law professor said the school is promoting homophobia and will challenge whether Iowa is violating NCAA rules by painting a visitors' locker room pink. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discuss: Iowa Sports -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erin Buzuvis moved to Iowa from Boston in the fall and discovered the visiting team's locker room at Kinnick Stadium was pink -- something she said promotes sexism and homophobia. But officials...