Sept. 26, 2005

Quick Takes: U. of Central Fla. Police Officer Killed, American U. President Defends Spending, Furor Over Pink Locker Room at Iowa

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An undercover police officer from the University of Central Florida, working to control underage drinking before a home football game, was shot and killed by an Orlando police officer Saturday, The Orlando Sentinel reported. A Central Florida student was also shot and injured. While reports were sketchy, The Sentinel quoted witnesses as saying that the undercover officer pulled out his gun and fired in a confrontation with students, and that the Orlando police officer then shot him, without knowing that the gun-toting man was an undercover police officer.
The president of American University, Benjamin Ladner, told The Washington Post that most of the $500,000 in spending that a recent audit has questioned was legitimate and consistent with his contract. Ladner is on leave pending a board review of his spending, which included many lavish meals and home improvements. Ladner did acknowledge that he should have reimbursed the university for some expenses, such as an engagement party for his son. In an article Sunday, The Post reported that the university’s board is split on whether to keep Ladner — possibly with new spending controls — or to remove him.
A University of Iowa law professor received death threats and abusive e-mail messages after she criticized the university for maintaining a tradition of painting the visiting locker room in the football stadium pink, The Des Moines Register reported. The pink decor dates to the 1970s as part of a strategy of softening up football opponents. The Register said that the threats — apparently from Iowa football fans who admire the strategy — started after Erin Buzuvis, a law professor, told a local reporter: “With a pink locker room, you’re saying that ‘You are a girlie man. You are weak, like a girl.’ That implies that girls are non-dominant, therefore, lesser. And that is offensive.”

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Misunderstanding the Psychology of Color

What does a law professor know about the psychology of color? Nothing, it seems.

Dr. Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., director of the American Institute for Biosocial Research in Tacoma Washington, reported that when prison cells were painted pink, it reduced aggressive behavior among prisoners. However, later studies showed that the effect was very temporary, and may even contributed to even more agressive behavior after the body achieved equilibrium.

Hayden Fry, former Iowa football coach, is credited with ordering the pink paint for the opponents’ locker room. Fry’s winning record may attest to the success of the pink locker room, or was it the patsy teams outside the Big 10 he routinely scheduled?

According to color studies, pink is a tranquilizing, calming color. The fact that our society has associated pink with baby girls and blue with baby boys has nothing to do with the true psychology behind those colors. They have more to do with fashion than science.

In fact, pink shirts and ties are in vogue among men. To associate pink with gender is sexist in itself!

Tom McCool, at 10:18 am EDT on September 26, 2005

Ladner should go

Ben Ladner’s actions and arrogance are a significant liabilty for higher education. They play in to the negative sterotypes about academe that are held not only by the American public, but also the Congress that sits right in AU’s back yard.

For the sake of his own institution and the moral highground of academe more generally, he should gracefully retire the position at AU.

To the board of trustees, protecting your own should apply to the mass of those higher education, not one greedy individual who works for you and has made us all look bad.

Time to play your role as trusted leadership and help him move on.

Island Room, at 10:19 am EDT on September 26, 2005

Pink

As the mother of a 13 year old manly-boy who plays football and all the other jock sports, pink is all the rage right now. He and his tough friends have multiple pink clothing items — probably more that his older sister in high school. Get with the program — pink is in for everyone!

Sarah, at 11:02 am EDT on September 26, 2005

Lockers

As the song goes in FUNNY FACE: “Think pink!”

Gabriel Austin, at 11:43 am EDT on September 26, 2005

On the tailgate shooting

If people weren’t so worried about underage drinking, the shooting would never have happened. This is the cost of trying to prevent a 20 year old from having a beer.

tom, at 1:40 pm EDT on September 26, 2005

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Misunderstanding the Psychology of Color

Ladner should go

Pink

Lockers

On the tailgate shooting

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