"… The professor in question is Resmiye Oral, a clinical professor of pediatrics at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. In an email distributed to other members of the UI Faculty sent Aug. 23, she expressed concern about the mascot’s angry, fixed grin.
“‘I believe incoming students should be met with welcoming, nurturing, calm, accepting and happy messages,’ Oral wrote. ‘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.’”
Flag football, anyone?
http://wqad.com/2016/08/25/ui-professor-worried-angry-herky-mascot-promotes-aggression-and-violence/