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. “I believe incoming students should be met with welcoming, nurturing, calm, accepting and happy messages,” Resmiye Oral, a clinical professor of pediatrics, wrote Tuesday in an email to athletic department officials, obtained by the Iowa City Press-Citizen. “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,” she argued.
But you know, blueticks are coon hounds. I feel this is a slap in the face of any modern and enlightened student and needs to be replaced with a nurturing mother figure.
Did y'all see the letter U of Chicago sent to freshmen? It pretty much said f**k trigger warnings and safe spaces. Good on them.
This is like an Onion piece right? Actually, I'm not sure they would run it. Seems too out there to make good satire.
