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College Mascot Not Calm and Nurturing Enough

Herky Hawkeye
(Photo by David Madison/Getty Images)

Until they’ve perfected the G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate.

“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 [The Hawk’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.

They dress Herky up in all sorts of costumes. Would Professor Oral feel better if he borrowed the dress Caitlyn Jenner wore for Vouge?

(No word on how Prof. Oral feels about members of the Iowa Democrat party snapping selfies in front of people’s burning homes.)

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